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« on: Wednesday 24 March 21 08:33 GMT (UK) »
An auspicious day marking the start of the changes in all our lives... who would have thought that a year later we are still blighted by this dreadful unseen creeping nightmare...
For all those families who have lost loved ones and been unable to grieve in the normal way, I can’t imagine how hard that has been...
All the medical and care staff who have worked tirelessly to keep us alive and sometimes at great costs to themselves....
For all the children from the very young to the university students whose education has suffered...
For the young starting out on their working lives to have it taken away like a slippery carpet ...
I could go on but we each and every one of us has felt the hand of this pandemic squeeze us in more ways than one...
But...
It has brought community spirit and neighbourliness new friendships to some lives and there have been heroes like Captain Sir Tom Moore and those courageous souls who have worked tirelessly....
For the vast majority of people we have never seen the like before and this period will go down in history.... I wonder how it will be remembered in a hundred years time...
This diary day covers the last two days....
On Monday we spent the morning out buying sand and gravel, cement, fence posts and various other items...
Then the afternoon was spent getting everything ready and putting in the first post which took some time...
In between I managed to make an 80th birthday card for my DiL’s father and two bereavement cards for two family members who had both passed away over the weekend...
Dinner was just the remainder of the beef joint with vegs...
My friend J messaged to say the consultant had been pleased with his handiwork and it was healing well.. 4 more weeks in the sling with some gentle exercises... no mention of the other problem so will give her a call later this week..
Had a dreadful nights sleep resulting in reading for over an hour... the new book by Steve Robinson just out...
Consequently I didn’t wake till quite late and on opening the blind I could see that OH had been up preparing for Tuesdays work!
When I got downstairs the house was empty so guessed he’d gone to get more ballast and cement!
The next two posts were all ready to go...
Turns out he’d got up ridiculously early and although my bedrooms at the back of the house and I have a window opened he must have been as quiet as the preverbal church mouse as I’d not heard a thing!
The day was sunny and quite warm so washing out...
The rest of the day was spent helping put the other two posts in and in between I wandered down the village to drop off the lottery winning to a friend whose been shielding so not seen her much... we stood at a distance and had a chat for some minutes...
Walking back through the churchyard it was a joy to see the ground covered in aconites, primroses, primulas, daffodils and I spotted a bunch of bluebells couldn’t resist taking a picture as they stood out like sentinels ... when I enhanced the photo the colours looked wonderful... as seen below.
I edged the borders on one side and dug and weeded that side too...
By the time we finished it was gone 5pm and we’d been outside all day...
Feeling quite stiff had a hot shower which felt wonderful..
Dinner I made cod fish cakes with sweet pots in mine and ordinary pots in OH mixed with red chillies and parsley, this time I coated them in breadcrumbed mixed with grated Parmesan... baked in the oven with the pot skins and cherry tomatoes.... I cooked some spinach and mixed it with mushrooms, creme fraiche and lots of pepper... vegs were asparagus and broccoli spears...
I was very glad to sit down and relax after dinner I can tell you!
That’s the sum total of our last two days... having had weeks of relatively little activity it was lovely to be outside and busy...
Probably pay for it tomorrow!
Caroline