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
Wednesday 3 June 2020
A Granny's Diary - Oldies Shopping Day
Our shoppinjg has just been delivered by the nice man from Sainsbury's. It's Saturday evening at 10pm . He's busily ticking off our food items from the list and I'm running backwards and forwards taking our food out of the shopping bags, wiping each item down with a freshly rinsed out hot dish cloth and put each new item on the table besides him, for that oh so vital tick. And then of course, it's time to fill our cupboards and 'fridge/freezer with these new foodie numbers. Hurrah - we have enough food for another week, and milk and butter and I'm making my sourdough bread !
I really do love my sourdough bread but frankly I'm seemingly better at making bricks than making San Fran sourdough. I keep trying different recipes, new ideas and sometimes my creation is not quite as much of a brick as the previous one, and sometimes its not!
Ah never mind, we were talking about shopping. We are most fortunate having our weekly food box delivered. We oldies count our blessings, relishing our non-attendance at our favourite foodie cathedral and having more time for the garden.
Ah ha the garden. My bee and butterfly garden was all set to host all flowers designed to attract bees and butterflies and other pollinators. But I gave in to His idea that we should grow some veggies, for future poverty needs, which has resulted much more work for me and even some digging. I believe in the no-diggiong principle but have to admit our ground did need some fork and spade work but, oh gosh, it does make for hard work and extra creeks and groans when you've done.
We've just picked our first little handful of microgreen leave and hoping for many more to come.
What a peculier time we're living through right now. Thank goodness, things may be improving more soon but when our new normality will settle down, is anybody's guess.
Cheerio,
Margaret xxx
I really do love my sourdough bread but frankly I'm seemingly better at making bricks than making San Fran sourdough. I keep trying different recipes, new ideas and sometimes my creation is not quite as much of a brick as the previous one, and sometimes its not!
Ah never mind, we were talking about shopping. We are most fortunate having our weekly food box delivered. We oldies count our blessings, relishing our non-attendance at our favourite foodie cathedral and having more time for the garden.
Ah ha the garden. My bee and butterfly garden was all set to host all flowers designed to attract bees and butterflies and other pollinators. But I gave in to His idea that we should grow some veggies, for future poverty needs, which has resulted much more work for me and even some digging. I believe in the no-diggiong principle but have to admit our ground did need some fork and spade work but, oh gosh, it does make for hard work and extra creeks and groans when you've done.
We've just picked our first little handful of microgreen leave and hoping for many more to come.
What a peculier time we're living through right now. Thank goodness, things may be improving more soon but when our new normality will settle down, is anybody's guess.
Cheerio,
Margaret xxx
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