Day One Hundred and Thirty Three - Sunday Blues

One of those Sundays where everyone around me seemed to have company and visitors. And even though, for many, social distancing seems to be a thing of the past their conversations are still socially distanced. i.e. loud! It made me feel very alone. However I did have yet another chat with Sue on my walk this morning. We discussed our feelings about using public transport. Not at the moment obviously but in the future. She was telling me about her son who had to make a trip to Westminster to pick up a laptop for work. He wasn’t looking forward to the trip at all. But he said there were only two people in his carriage and everyone was well spaced out. He did not take the Underground from Fenchurch Street. He elected to walk to Westminster.

It was a beautiful early morning, quite the best part of the day. The sky was almost cloudless save for a cotton wool band of cloud stretching just above the horizon of the sea. The sun at that time in the morning casts the most wonderful extravaganza of light and shadow. There was hardly anyone about and the air was rich with that early morningness that makes you think you might be on holiday. That undefinable frisson  of feeling that I often wish I could bottle and keep beside me for days like these.

I strapped my left hand up and managed a half hours gardening after breakfast. Then I did some housework. The strapping seems to help. My other main task for the day was to sort out the birthdays of my friend’s younger son and his family. I’ve acknowledged them all but I usually send a card and gifts for the children. I pop some cash in a card for the adults. I’ve done neither. All of their birthdays fall between April and July. What I’ve decided to do is give them an Amazon Gift card with a substantial amount so they can either buy something for the family or choose something individually. So I made a card with the lettering ‘Happy Birthdays’ and penned a letter explains myself! I shall post it next week and hopefully it will arrive in time for the final birthday on 30th.

I shall phone my brother shortly. An unexpected turn of events has occurred. Apparently there has been an outbreak of coronavirus at a town very near him and a place that he visits frequently. It was also the place where my next door neighbours stayed last weekend. Bit spooky. The outbreak was in a caravan park. Although my neighbours were camping I don’t believe it was in a caravan although I‘ve yet to talk to them about it. They have people staying for the weekend. My sister has phoned my brother and says she thinks he is being rational and sensible.

Globally coronavirus does not seem to be slowing down. A million new cases! Even North
Korea has one now. One suspected case and a state of emergency has been called. That’s the way to stamp it out. I can be rational about my own lockdown when I consider the picture worldwide. It’s only going to take people travelling again for figures to rise. Which they are doing, apparently, in Spain, France and Germany. And some of these countries had strict lockdowns, too. See what happens when you ease a lockdown?