Feest Isolation Days – 26 January 2021
There isn’t a lot of news in those Sunday papers! I managed to finish reading them earlier than normal this week. The big news from America is that there is a decent human being in the White House! Joe Biden is the President. All that ink dedicated exclusively to the most recent inhabitant is no longer. The main issue here at the moment seems to be a lot of conjecture about the splitting up of the United Kingdom. It remains to be seen over the next months whether that is going to happen, but Scotland are pushing and shoving to leave. Good luck to them! It will be interesting to see what happens there post Pandemic. How the funding goes will surely be an issue.
Here in England, we are playing the what would the UK be called game, if it does split. The United Kingdom of England and Wales? The Disunitied Kingdom? Or how about just The Kingdom? What do you think? And what happens to the Royals when and if it fractures? Poor Charles will have waited a lifetime, possibly not to reign as he would have hoped. All interesting topics in Lockdown!
We are delighted to say that Terry has now got an even earlier vaccination! Our local GP surgery has texted and he will be going to the local vaccine centre on Friday. He has been told it will be the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine. He needs to cancel the jab for the 2 February at the huge Sports ground where Bristol is doing jabs. I’m much happier with this plan…fewer people around is always a good thing.
It was a glorious day and we headed out for a walk in the country. We met mud and frozen ground in equal measure. Meantime, before we went, I had to get the sun hat out to sit on the swing for morning drinks. Lovely!
We parked up on a lane outside the home of two horses. I had to look twice to make sure they were horses! I’ve never seen horses in such gear.
Well it was three degrees when we got there and it was about minus three in the night. But doesn’t he look a picture? The other guy got shy and retreated into his stall as soon as I started snapping away!
We were only four and a bit miles from home, but it felt like another world. We started on a small road that was covered in black ice and then got to a trail that was sqrunchy mud. Snow on the ground and not too slippery…yet. Great views!
Terry clambered over a stile, not bad for a seventy something nearly seven year old!
The final bit of the walk was steep and so muddy it took about half an hour to get onto the track and it was challenging. All I can say is all that Pilates does seem to work. My quads got me out of the quagmire…eventually. I did tell Terry to stop talking to me and let me figure it out by myself. I needed to feel my feet in the slippery mud and find my own way. Sometimes you need to do these things for yourself. We spent another half an hour walking back. I did accept a proffered arm on the descent! Without the mud this bit of the walk would have taken less than half the time. It was worth it though! The sun shone and when we were out of the woods, we found a well placed ornamental bench overlooking a pond where we had our thermos of coffee and well earned digestive biscuits.
There was hardly anyone around and between the three degree temperature and the mud, I think I know why that might have been. Still we did it and the rain is promised to set in from tomorrow so back to the indoor bike. Adventures in Lockdown! Yes, they ARE possible!
Stay safe and enjoy!
With love,
Kathy x