Day Four Hundred and Nineteen

Feest Isolation Days –7 May 2021

We are both double jabbed!  The return of some of our old life is slowly beginning to occur. By the time I sit down to write this next week, we will be packed and ready to head to a holiday home for a week.  We loved the place on Exmoor so much we booked it again for December after having been there in October. Lockdown put paid to that though!  (That expression, put paid to that, by the way, comes from account keepers who literally placed a paid stamp or simply wrote paid across bills of sale that were complete.  It has been used since the 19^th century in counting houses).  Our December trip was cancelled along with everything else, but we are returning on the 15^th May for another stay!  We will be joined for one night later in the week by friends when it is legally a possibility.  Can’t wait!

As the time draws near to meet more and more people and life returns, our isolation will finally draw to a close.  That means that this is the penultimate missive that you will get from me!  One more next week and then I will return you totally to your own devices.  By now, you too will have begun to move into the world again.  My hope is that you will take some of the lockdown lessons you learned with you and will be happy to incorporate the good bits into your life. 

The numbers in Bristol are lower than they have been for months and months with only 11 people per hundred thousand with Covid, and the hospital beds all over the Southwest are now filled with people who have conditions other than Covid.  There are only 44 people in hospital throughout our area with the disease.  Nearly 69% of the over sixteen’s have been jabbed once in our region, with many already having received two vaccines.  All of this is going in the right direction.

Today is Polling Day!  As these are local elections, I have carefully looked at the candidates and will vote for the people and not any particular party.  As it happens, I will be voting, Green, Lib Dem, Independent and Labour for the various positions that are to be filled.  I hope I get the names right when I come to mark my ballot paper, but I feel certain I will.  There were no Conservative candidates in any of the areas that I felt I could vote for.  Nothing new there…

We will find out the results of the votes next week as there are so many counts that need to take place.  All 70 Bristol City Councillors are up for election, as is the Mayor, The Chief Constable and the Metro Mayor.  Lots to think about. I’ve done my homework though…let’s hope that those unlocking us have done theirs!

Have a great weekend and week and see you next Friday! Whatever you get up to…enjoy!

With love

Kathy x