Feest Isolation Days – 24 November
There is light at the end of the lockdown tunnel! There are several vaccines that will be offered over the next few months if the regulator agrees that they are safe and ready for use. Science will, as ever, help us to carry on with our lives in a way that will be more like normal than anything we’ve known for months and months.
Matt Hancock the Health Secretary says that he thinks by Easter we will be back to “normal”. It seems plausible now, but we do have to get through the winter first!
And what will the new normal look like? Will we take our masks off en masse…have a massive demasking party? Or will we still feel that protecting ourselves from the germs circulating in the world remains a good idea? And what about our shopping habits? Will we still order our food on-line and avoid the queues in the grocery shops? (I say a resounding yes to that one!) Weekly food planning and ordering has become part of our routine and that isn’t going to change anytime soon.
We’ll be able to see the kids again. And hug them. Listen to their voices as they tear up and down the stairs to their games room when they STAY here. And we can go to LONDON on the train and see our son’s new flat and wander around an art gallery and take in a show and sit on a tube and jump into a black cab on our way to a restaurant. Wow. Post Covid life! We need to hang on though…get through the winter….
I’ll be able to swim again! Will I still know how? This is the longest period of my life since I learned how to swim that I haven’t been doing lengths up and down a pool. As I’ve cancelled my gym membership I might even join a new club. Exciting times!
We WILL be going back to New Zealand this time next year! All of our friends there will be getting big hugs.
What are you looking forward to the most? For me, after seeing the kids and friends in the house with hugs, will be ambling down the street and popping into a café for a cuppa without a prearranged, organised time to do so. No masks to be worn (perhaps) and no worries (perhaps).
Zoom will be a thing of our past – except for those really long distance meetings like Auckland Pilates. Dinner parties will be for real, and people will get hugs when they walk in the door. Friends will come and stay.
Meantime, there is a long way to go between now and Easter. Keep at it. Keep going. We’ll be sharing our hugs with you along with our Easter Chocolates.
Let’s all use the last few months of Covid as productively as we can. The light is getting closer but it isn’t here yet!
Stay safe. Wear your mask. Keep distancing.
With love
Kathy x