Feest Isolation Days – 2 February
The Pandemic isn’t over yet, but at least January is. It stays light a little bit longer every day and the garden is bursting with bulbs beginning to appear. They are tiny but they are beginning. Lots of our friends have had the jab, we know a lot of people seventy and over. It got us to thinking what being vaccinated and somewhat protected will mean for us. What will we do with this new-found freedom when it comes?
Seeing our kids and grandkids is high on the agenda. Being able to have hugs and conversations in person while sitting together for hours inside across a table in our dining room!
In the outside world, one of the first places we will visit when it’s possible is a restaurant that will serve us breakfast! It’s something both of us miss. Going out and having someone else cook our eggs. And do the washing up and clearing. Just deciding on the spur of the moment that we want to leave the house. For someone else to cook our eggs. Or go into a pub after a country walk and grab a sandwich, and Terry can have a pint.
I want to jump in a pool and swim for days! As I haven’t been in a swimming pool since New Zealand last year, it will be strange. My routine will change when that is possible again. I no longer belong to a club so I will have to decide where to do this as well.
But wait. We aren’t there yet. In some ways this bit is the hardest. We can see the finishing line but we aren’t actually at it. We have a few more laps to go. It will no doubt be summer before we can really change our routines. And that’s if there are no new variants that mess us up.
For now we have to carry on the way we have for months and months. We will continue to be super careful, stay out of shops and away from others. We will wear our masks when we go for our in town walks, and continue to wash all the food that arrives. Packages will still queue up by the door waiting the three days before we open them. Zoom will remain the place we meet friends for dinner. What’s app will provide us with the main family connection along with the telephone.
Lockdown is not over. We need to keep up the good work for a bit longer The kids might get back to school by the 8th March. More than a month to that first milestone for us all. We can begin to look ahead…but maybe we’d be better off not futuring too much…for now. The jabs some have had are only the beginning. The shoots in the garden are inching forward, and like them, one day soon we will blossom. But not quite yet. Still, January is behind us! Well done one and all!
Stay safe. Wear those masks and dream those dreams…keep up the social distancing…but don’t forget to enjoy the day!
With love,
Kathy x