Hi Sylvia and MaNaAk, thank you for asking. It been a mixed bag. The sorting out of my mobile and contract has not gone as smoothly as I had anticipated - my number wasnt ported across, the mobile would only do emergency called, I couldnt get it to download my contacts... and the contract, far from being in both our names (as OH had told me was the case) was in his name only. The mobile took several stressy phone calls and then another visit to the shop, but I think its OK now. The contract was harder to sort out because they wouldnt speak to me and OH is completely deaf now and cant use the phone (and I doubt he would remember the security questions). I think I resolved this by prompting OH in using the "chat" option in our on-line account, but I am far from certain. I has taken up much of my time and was certainly not relaxing, but there is no way I could have managed it if OH was at home.
On the plus side, I have managed a couple of nice things. Daughter came to visit on Monday with her son (now 14 months old) who is a delight and I could spend proper quality time with them without most of my brain being on OH and having to regularly deal with him. We visited him in the care home and she approved of the place, so we are all agreed, which is good.
Ive also managed to mooch around a local town, which OH hates, and had lunch there without fretting about whether they did GF food for him and Ive also spent a relaxing time at a local nature, sitting in the hides and watching the birds. OH has no patience now and considers this boring, so just wants to go home, but I found it relaxing without him. Today our village is holding a "Fun Day" on the green. OH would find it too overwhelming to go and I would have to give it a miss, but instead, I can go and catch up with people in the village who I havent seen since the beginning of the pandemic. It will indeed be fun