Today’s news has left me both frustrated and sad.
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A good Care story
I am so pleased that my school friend Jan has received a photo of her mum sent by the staff of the Quaker care home she lives in. The cards and chocolate are things that Jan has sent to her mum. The picture goes just a little way towards relieving the worry caused by not being able to visit.
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A new web site
Today I have had an insight into how my husband spends many of his days. Having decided a while ago that it would be better to have a WordPress.org blog rather than WordPress.com today it is finally done. It has involved buying a domain name, getting a web hosting service from my son and endless patient support from my husband. I have even written (under dictation) a very short line of html code. A thing I have not done for many many years.
The process has been extraordinarily addictive. It started as a job to do before going for a run mid-morning. Here I am now at 7pm having done nothing but this all day. I have certainly ticked the box for learning new skills.
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Still being Grandma
At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis my son encouraged us in our decision to self isolate before the rest of the UK thought it necessary. I last saw my grandchildren after school almost 7 weeks ago, on March 11th.
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Birthday under lock-down
Some things were only a little different from usual; ordering on-line gifts required a little more planning in case delivery times were extended, ingredients for making a cake had to be planned rather more in advance than usual to fit in with our volunteer shoppers delivery times (still waiting for our first on-line delivery).
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Looking forward
I have not been motivated to post on the blog over the past few days and had been wondering what had changed. I think that recently it has become clearer to me that, as a partner of someone well over 70 with underlying health problems, I may need to remain in social isolation for closer to 12 months than 12 weeks.
Planned a route to take me through the most beautiful local woods and meadows with newborn lambs.
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A relaxed day
A good start set me up well for the rest of the day. I had decided that I should aim to start running soon after 9 am which means having breakfast before 8 am. I managed that today and was rewarded with a beautiful crisp sunny morning.
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Shopping at midnight
Last night I decided the time had come when I had to try to get an on-line shopping delivery by staying up until after midnight. John had tried Sainsburys the night before but had no joy so for my turn I tried Tesco.
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No dig Potatoes
Getting stuck in to a physically challenging gardening job is one of the best ways I know of picking myself up when I have been letting woes of the world get to me. I know that the only thing I can do to be useful is stay at home and keep myself well but it is easy to overwhelmed with sadness about the plight of others. To deal with my distress today I have converted a triangle of rough weedy ground into a potato bed, a five stage process.