A Granny's Diary....Here we go again !

Sunday 3 May 2020

7th week of lockdown and we here at home are just fine. Coping.  Looking forward to having this virus very definitely put to the rout and done with.  Even if it means we have to wear face masks for ages, maintain some sort of social distancing, work separately and accept a new normality.

It's really awful for everyone right now.  And for families who have lost dear ones, the tragedy of untimely deaths.  Failures of health care thinking, testing difficulties, problems of self-isolation, shielding and exit strategy.  Plus the horrifying prospect of world economic depression, joblessness, business failure, loss of business integrity, loss of peoples' incomes and economic viability and future prospects..

We hold everyone close to our heart and wish them well, and good luck and God speed for which ever deity they follow and subscribe to.  And to those who follow their own hearts and beliefs, or their own sense of self-confidence - we wish you well too and hope all your dreams come true and your future brightness and positivity.

In the meantime, what are you doing to cope?   What hobbies, new and old are you indulging in?  What new skills are you learning?  Are you baking, or singing - I am, both, sourdough baking and singing with Gareth Malone's new online chorus.  Gardening, of course, as exercise and food production.

Watching television of course.  I have found "The Split" about a top matrimonial lawyer, her husband and her family members, also top City lawyers.  Brilliant and hilarious.

Then "Last Tango in Halifax" ...OMG...it's brilliantly funny, and wonderfully clever and goodness me I should like to write something in a similar vein.  Make people shriek with laughter, cry hot tears of sadness and joy and be terribly cross or shocked by the capers of those peopling this tale of today.

Today, well it was written in 2012  so today, well 8 years on, which of course, is not very many years at  all.  So, yes today, and thank goodness for the ability to watch it now.

So do you Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp or Messenger for group family calls ?  I zoom with family and my WI group and local WI Federation.  I Skype with family in Australia.  WhatsApp South Africa and also speak to my sisters via Messenger.  All options incredibly acceptable to keeping in touch with your  family, near and far, easing the heartbreak of loved ones "over the hills and far away".

Craft work, using up cotton thread to make knitted dish cloths, family history trees and housework.
Time flies and we often need-must disentangle one day from another.  We are lucky enough to have our Sainsbury's "oldies" food delivery each week, for the last 3 weeks, since Him indoors has a few health issues.  Thankfully, he's fine and we're fine.

We visit  our allotment for exercise and looking forward to fresh beans, potatoes and salad items.  Presently we are picking rhubarb and later on, there will be raspberries.  Flowers and herbs always.

Margaret xxx