Yes...Jo and the girls come up on Saturday morning Hubby so that will keep me occupied for a few days, we tend to go out in my car leaving hers on the driveway, to different places each day. She's mentioned going to the Black Country Museum and Stratford upon Avon, and Gloucester Docks this time. There's a lot of beautiful places of interest in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, and she doesn't know this part of the country well herself, so Jo finds it enjoyable too, hopefully it will tire the girls out a little so they settle down in the evening a bit, as they can be rather exhausting and trying at times...lol
One needs a lot of patience with them, and I seem to have lost some of mine as I've got older..
I registered on that Dating site Plenty of Fish yesterday, but deleted my account 24hrs later, I did pass my phone number to a nice lady who has lost her husband to cancer, she's 70, and doesn't drive, she's really very nice and seems genuine and sincere. I've never used one of those sites in my life before. I deleted my account because the whole website is wide open, basically in the public domain, and has a consequence, everything that gets posted on there ends up being harvested continually by search engines, and because people tend to post a lot of personal information on there, they get targeted heavily by the many scavenger search engines out there, and as a result anything you post, including any personal pictures etc. it all gets recorded and basically remains online forever. It's a bit like this one a little where you don't even need to register to browse the site, but obviously there's much more personal information shared in people's profiles on dating sites....so not really for me...lol I like to talk to people, not share my whole life online (at least not in the public domain)....saying that, is that not what I'm doing on here...lol....yes...but to a much lesser extent...lol
It would be nice however, to develop a friendship with a lady in a similar position, and I emphasis the friendship as I'm not looking for a relationship, well certainly not at the moment or likely ever. I have a lot of meals out and like day trips out to different places, all over the UK, and holidays of course of which I have lots. I suppose it's the companionship I'm seeking, and she would enjoy it too I'm sure, as that's what I am really missing since Ann passed away.
That lady I mentioned lives in the adjacent county of Gloucestershire so not too far away, her sister passed away at the weekend so not a good time for her at the moment, but I hope she does make that phone call.... I don't feel it's a betrayal to my dear Ann, and AIS I'm only looking for Companionship, not a relationship. The loneliness is probably the worst part of bereavement, the grieving never ever leaves you I don't think, it just becomes manageable as time passes.
In the mean time Hubby, as it's Tuesday, I shall head over to a pub, just outside Worcester for that Friends Group meeting tonight at 8.30, grabbing a Carvery at my favourite pub on the way about 6pm, only my 2nd meet-up so no doubt I shall be struggling again to recall all of their names and have to ask many of them again I'm sure. Anyway it gets me out of the bungalow for a few hours, and as I'm driving it's going to be Diet Coke all night again..lol
You take care my friend.