Feest Isolation Days – 10 February 2021
This lockdown seems longer! I am not sure if it is or if it’s just that by Lockdown Three it is all getting a wee bit tedious! We are fine. We carry on and actually are achieving quite a lot in our own lockdown way. But gheez! I wish it would end! Me and the rest of the country, if not the world! It’s like a good film that never quite makes it as a sequel. In fact as a film in this case even the first one was not very good. But you know what I mean…by the third time the plot is SO tired!
Covid isn’t gone yet and like everyone else we are still maintaining lockdown. It is very cold and the exercise mats and bike are getting a fair old workout. The garden swing gets us our (very cold!) fresh air every day and today the sky is blue and the sun golden. The golden moments are worth breathing in!
When do you think the lockdown will end? This is a question that keeps coming up at Downing Street Press Briefings. When? How? The answer sadly, is that nobody knows! People don’t like not knowing. It causes a great deal of angst. The how will be set out on the 22nd February. The government has been consistent on that. Cases are coming down, yet they are still higher than they were at the last lockdown. The death rate is coming down, too. These are two figures we watch for signs of improvement. They are better but not enough to unlock us all. That means we live our lives with lockdown.
A pair of gold crests have decided to visit us in the garden and these little creatures have made life sweeter. This morning our little robin joined us as we had our swing time.
For all of the tedium, we are doing well in Lockdown Three. Maybe experience has taught us how to manage it better? Perhaps it’s the knowledge that the vaccines will soon open things up a bit? We continue to enjoy the bursting forth of the buds. Snowdrops and crocus give us some much needed colour.
The red camellia showing its first flowers is a joy!
Somehow for all the tediousness and the sameyness of Lockdown, the day sped by yesterday. I was busy writing away. Bliss. I couldn’t believe it when five o’clock arrived! I’m fairly certain the trick to this latest Lockdown is getting stuck in. Whatever you love to do…..do it! Time is ticking. Before you know it, we will be back to something approaching “normal” and there will be no time again. Remember that? Not enough time to do what you wanted to do? Well, you’ve got it my friends. Use it! The time is now.
I’m waiting for a text from the surgery or a note from the NHS inviting me for my vaccination. It’s like teenage days when you went out with a boy and sat around waiting and yearning for his call. That was then, this is now. With age comes wisdom. I know this call will come. As I know this will be over. In the meantime, enjoy the birds, flowers, the golden sun shining in the morning along the way…
Stay safe and enjoy!
With love,
Kathy x