I thought I was over-reacting a bit when I ordered our small Christmas turkey joint back in October, but it turns out that I wasn't! We are some of the lucky ones whose plans are not disrupted by the late move of London into Tier 4, but I feel desperately sorry for all those people who will be left on their own. My brother had invited us for ( Read more... )

To the surprise of absolutely no-one we are now in Tier 2 (High risk Covid-19 area) along with the rest of Greater London even though the infection rate round here is still quite low compared to some parts of the country. It doesn't make much difference to J and me as we haven't been going to pubs and mixing indoors anyway. My brother did suggest ( Read more... )

We usually do go out on this date as it is our wedding anniversary (thanks J for all the wonderful years) but a) the weather is dubious and b) we don't feel like using public transport so instead we are going to celebrate with a takeaway pizza from our favourite local Italian restaurant. I also thought today would be a suitable day to dig out our ( Read more... )

kazzy_cee has just made an entry looking back on 150 days of Lockdown and how she's coped so I thought I would do the same.

It's behind the cut and I may add to it as I think of more things.

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We met up with my brother and family for a socially distanced walk in our big local park yesterday afternoon. Social distancing is not really possible with a small child around so I hope we haven't picked anything up from anyone. Great Nephew F was a baby last time I saw him at Christmas and is now a little boy who runs about uttering high pitched ( Read more... )

I seem to have slipped a bit in updating. I would say we've been busy though we really haven't but it just seems like it. I've done another Paracise class and 2 Pilates classes so I'm actually getting more formal exercise in lockdown than I do normally. The weather this week has been really chilly but today is much nicer so we've been in the garden ( Read more... )

Just dashing in after another long break to wish everyone a Happy Christmas. I'm in that period of time when cooking the Christmas lunch where I know I should be doing something but I can't quite decide what it should be. It's just the two of us today as the big family gathering is on 28th December but we have something extra to celebrate as Niece ( Read more... )

It's been at least another month since I last posted but I am still here and still reading. In the spirit of accentuating the positive (because the sale of my mother's house is still hanging over us like a lead balloon) I am trying to think of fun things that I have done in the past few weeks.

• Had afternoon tea in the crypt of St. Paul's ( Read more... )

I am still here but have very little time to post as we are deep into clearing my parents' house. This is a process that is sad, nostalgic and infuriating in a complicated and exhausting mixture of emotions ( Read more... )