Day Eighty-Nine - A Day of Social Undistance

I thought today was going to be a day like any other lockdown day. I got up went for my walk at five thirty. I ate my breakfast and did some chores. Then I got a message from my friend saying her grandchildren were coming over, would I like to come down and see them. That did pose a conundrum for me. Because my natural paranoia and anxiety tried to persuade me that, children being the vectors of disease that they are, I should steer well clear. But at the moment I'm trying to do anything I can for my friend. So I tentatively said that I might. And it isn't that I didn't want to see any of them. I did. Her grandchildren are delightful. They are such little characters. And I feared that the youngest, who was two in April, might not even remember me .But I haven't been anywhere socially throughout lockdown. And I knew we'd only be sitting in the garden but children being children I was worried about the social distancing. In the end I threw caution to the wind and down I went. I wore a facemask. And I had hand sanitiser in my pocket. And we sat in the garden. And the children did come closer than 2 m.

But they're kids. What do you expect? I do know that their mum has been very vigilant about them not mixing with others. So I think I'll probably be okay. And my friend was so happy.  I'm so worried about her currently that moments like these are so important.

And that's really my day. I don't know where the rest of the time has gone I was very late having my lunch after I got back from my friends and I was fiddling about with computers and photos. Why do these things take so long? I don't know. And I can hardly believe we're in the middle of June.

I was glad to see that on my walk this morning the parks department had been tending to the flower beds. They are a glorious feature of the summer in my town. But they've been overgrown with weeds. So it looks as if they are going to do something for the season.

I haven't even looked at the news today so I don't know what's going on in the world of coronavirus and #blacklivesmatter . I believe they're gearing up for another weekend of protests. The world has gone crazy. They've banned the showing of Gone with the Wind, they've also banned Fawlty Towers because of the episode about the war. Is no one able to look at the bigger picture, ever?