Day One Hundred and Sixty

Feest Isolation Days – 21 August

A lot of firsts are coming up next week! Just as well as the cancellations of this week have been slightly disappointing.  We were to have had lunch with the kids in Exeter, but our hostess had a headache and a sore throat so we stayed in Bristol. Shame.  We will meet again in the next few weeks.  Plans for Friday also didn’t pan out as my friend who was to visit didn’t feel well either.  Neither of these seem to be Covid thankfully, but irritating to them none the less.

Next week the firsts will be SO welcome!  We are heading out on Monday.  It’s our wedding anniversary!  With a bit of luck the weather will be reasonable.  We are going to a Michelin starred pub in a Cotswold village that we’ve been to before. It’s a small place with a big garden and weather willing, we will manage to eat food cooked by someone else.  No washing up to do either!  Yea!  There are lovely walks from the pub, so we intend to fit that in as well.

The next first is a few days away.  Yep!  We are going to stay, on our own, at our friends’ place in Hay on Wye. They generously invite us to stay there every year and we have been there with friends and family as well as with them and on our own.  We had planned our annual Easter trip to see them, but of course that never happened. This will be the first place we have stayed at other than home since we returned from New Zealand in March.  That’s a very long time for we former travellers.  I will be wearing my mask as I visit book shops…it’s Hay!  What else is a woman to do?

The next first for over one hundred and sixty days for me, is that I will be taking a holiday from writing each day next week.  This will be the last musing from me until the first of September.  It seems a good time to start again, and I will no doubt be refreshed and raring to go.  I certainly hope so! In the meantime, remember that the scientists are busily working away on our behalf.

Until then, enjoy the last days of August and lets all hope for an Indian Summer in September.

Take care, wear those masks, socially distance, use your sanitizer, and whatever you get up to, have fun!

See you on the 1^st of September….

With love,

Kathy x