Feest Isolation Days – 14 January 2021
Some days there are stories and people that tug on your heart strings and make you feel all warm and wonderful. Yesterday we watched a ten year old, Max Woolsey from Braunton in Devon, talk about his amazing Lockdown experience. He decided to raise fifty pounds for his local Hospice after his neighbour Rick, 74, died at home which was his wish, with the help of Hospice Care. Max and Rick had been great friends. Before he died, Rick gave him the tent that he is sleeping in and told his young neighbour friend to have an adventure. As Max says, “that’s just what I’m doing.”
You can listen to Max speaking about the latest addition to his tent here. I promise it will make you feel good. Max is ten.
We went for a walk yesterday when the rain moved down into just mizzy mode. There were too many people about! Places that were not open in the other lockdowns were open now. Who needs to buy local artists’ hand made goods at the moment? Click and collect? You have to go into the shop and pick things up. Essential items? Businesses with no ventilation had people sitting inside working on computers without masks or social distancing. They could surely be working from home! We passed repair garages that were open and walked across the road from someone who worked in one, not a native Brit, who spit in the street. No mask in sight, coughing away. I could feel my hackles rise.
Fortunately, there were a few little kids on scooters that made me feel delighted with people once again. There were three of them with happy abandon scooting down a hill in the park as we walked some distance from them. The first lad made it down with no problem, the second crashed half-way down and landed on the ground. “Don’t worry I’m fine, keep going” he yelled to his friend. A little girl then serenely managed to smash into the boy on the ground. He didn’t make a fuss at all, but instead helped her up. They were kids being kind, sweet and adorable kids. None of them could have been older than five and the little girl was maybe three.
These moments do make up for so many others! Hope you find something to cheer you today. Keep looking. You’ll find it!
Stay safe and Enjoy!
With love,
Kathy x