A Continuation of Reflections

We are still in lockdown, there has been some easing up, we can meet some people out doors, we can meet some in our garden, some shops are opening up, there is a conflict about if and when schools go back. I cannot keep up any interest in any of it now.I believe that whatever the government tell us,  we have to take responsibility for ourselves. There have been a good few highlights since I last wrote this blog. I have treated myself to some new things, enjoyed a bit of retail therapy. I bought two small round coffee tables ,two small cushions one large cushion, and a throw, all in the same design as the cushion Jackie gave me for my 70th birthday. I have bought three pairs of cotton trousers and new underwear.  I got a jigsaw puzzle of Inveraray Castle on ebay for Andrew and Lucy and two old Inveraray postcards for myself. Reading the messages on the cards is really touching and I love seeing the old stamps. I sent large bars of chocolate, and notes on cards, to eac...

Prayer Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train. Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales console the lodger looking out across a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss. Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre. Carol Ann Duffy The Times Saturday Review, 1992

it is a while since I have blogged. I have had awful toothache, been on antibiotics, recovered from that and I am now out the other side. I could not see a dentist ; it was a phone call and a toss up between an extraction ,the only dental option, and antibiotics. It was a beautiful week the week I was on the meds. I did not feel well enough to go out at all. Since then I have enjoyed my work which is increasing . I think due to Lock down. It is very tough for all of us but some more than others. I have contributed to a podcast that my daughter in law is making . She is interviewing folk around the world to hear their experiences of lock down and I enjoyed contributing to that. I hardly listen to the news these days.I find it too depressing . I think in the end we will all have to make our own decisions about which risks we are willing to take. I worry that like Brexit this pandemic is divisive  or at least the way it has been handled and reported.The rich still have mo...

Sunday May 3rd, another week has passed and we are still in lockdown. This week The Prime Minister is back at work . He has recovered from Covid 19  and is girlfriend has had a baby boy, he has been through a lot. I am not confident that he is the right man for the job at this time, it is quite frightening when you look around the world at some of the leaders, it feels like it is the blind leading the blind. I imagine that it would be good if there was more consultation going on ,a more co-ordinated approach.I hope there is behind the scenes. I think if we knew more we would feel better.As humans we like to feel in control even if it is just an illusion. In the end we have to make up our own minds about when we feel it is safe to go out ,and where we choose to go. I hear that some young people are finding lockdown hard and are going out anyway.  Some people feel annoyed as they are giving up their lifestyle for the elderly. I get that ;it must be hard ;if you don'...