Lockdown 2; Catch up!!

It was gutting to start another lockdown! I’m sure it won’t be the last one sadly 😒… So what’s been happening in WaderBird’s world during the latest football abyss?? 🤔

#SKIPGATE

We got ex Wader legend Donners in to do some work on our garden, removing a triffid, a pond and a brick built shed, then putting up a fence – of course Donners didn’t do the work himself, he’s the boss man these days 😘… the lads did a great job and I would highly recommend B&D civil engineering!👍🤝 the only fly in the ointment, that gave me and BigAl sleepless nights 👀was the skip that ended up in front of the wrong garage…. 😨 any other we wouldn’t have cared (they don’t 🤷‍♀️) You have never seen 2 people more pleased than when it finally got picked up 🙏 thankfully our neighbour was very good about it…😳

#Holidays@Home

Me and BigAl should have been in Lanzarote the 2nd week of November, unfortunately this pandemic had other ideas 🙄 DJ ended up staying with us for the 1st 18 days of lockdown 👀 after using up 7 days holiday between us, 😬 we were down to favours – a massive thankyou to Rosie & Lew who stepped in one day 💚💚💚💚 and my boss who let me work from home a couple of days 😊😊 (Daniel actually seemed quite interested in some of my meetings!🤓🧐) and then BigAls mum and dad who did the last day and half ❤. He didn’t leave until we had at least put up the Christmas tree – the earliest I have ever done it…!🎅  To be fair, given that DJ is autistic and he wasn’t able to do the stuff he loves with us i.e Spoons & football, he was a delight… I’m not gonna lie though, its nice not having to worry about someone else when getting ready for work each day 🤪😜

#SickNoteGate

A few blogs ago I joked that I would start to call Uncle Albert Sicknote – its a bit of a standing joke; Although, as Bruce quickly points out, he has only had 1 day sick in 20+ year – lets not let facts get in the way of a good blog Bruce!) 😅  last season Uncle Albert had some chest pains on the walk down to Langford rd – of course the Green Army were super sympathetic 🤥…… 😬to be fair, he’s not a big fan of walking 👣Anyway as I said to BigAl yesterday if I were Bruce (uncle Albert) I would now be feeling very vindicated… 😇 A week or so ago he was admitted to hospital with chest pains; he was soon transferred to Papworth and on Friday 😲 he went in for a quadruple heart bypass 👀👀😱 and then, not unlike his alter ego Uncle Albert… it all went a bit ‘Pete Tong’ when his aorta dissected 😱😨  9 hours later he was in recovery with a brand new one! All credit to him, the following day, he was out of bed and chatting on the phone 👏👏Well done Uncle Albert 🙌🙌 we are all still sending him best wishes – in fact BigAl spoke to him yesterday and he sounds really well and is and hoping to be back at the Yvette Brewer stadium soon…maybe not Spoons for while. Uncle Albert, the Green Army salute you 💚⚽️💚

#SiblingGate

I grew up an only child – although my dad did, later on, have 3 more children, one of which, Charlotte, I have been in ‘face book’ contact with the last 10 years (never spoken – well not as adults) 😊 During the 1st lockdown, Charlotte informed me, our dad had passed away (We hadn’t been in contact for 30 years, so not close) 😌 Now, Charlotte is some sort of super sleuth 🧐 I don’t think she realises how good she is! so I really should not of been surprised when she contacted me a few days later to warn me she’d found our big brother 😱 living in France (I had been told of an older Brother when I was a kid… but with my dad, you never knew what was real 🤷‍♀️) – Turns out Wayne was real! Blue haired, manU supporting, Slaughter and the dogs, punk rocker real 😆 Bunny man and our ground hopping Millwall mate were super impressed – with the music not the football team!! 😉 oh, and then…she discovers a City supporting, gorgeous older sister (I had no idea!) in Manchester 😱😱

So over the summer a ‘Long lost McGrath siblings’ group chat was created and I got my Irish passport ☘.. I was fascinated, you know, the whole nature over nuture stuff 🤓 Anyhow we all finally ‘met’ albeit virtually on Saturday 👀 Anyone who knows me well, would know its my worst nightmare ‘strangers’ and all that 👀 but its was really good, all thanks to Charlotte! and it was so interesting to pick up on the different bits we have in common and try and piece together everything – So now I am one of 6!! 💚

2020 has been an awful year; I just wanted to share something good to come out of it 😍😍