Wednesday 2nd November 2020 Day 253

8.00    The news is that a vaccine has been fully ok’d and could come into use next week.  I hear that people are weeping with relief.  I wish I was but I still don’t know how to feel about it all, it’s all been so quick and I have a feeling there might be a big divide between the ‘Fors’ and the ‘Againsts’, a bit like Brexit all over again.  I am neither one of those, I just don’t quite feel comfortable when it is normally years before a new vaccine is finally approved.

9.15    The forecast for today is cold and cloudy, I think the weather forecast tends not to mention sunshine much so that it will be a nice surprise if it turns out better than they suggest. Today being no exception. I have just opened the front door to receive yet another parcel from Amazon and it is quite bright outside although much colder. I can never remember what I last ordered, so it is always exciting to open the box, this morning it’s books and a construction kit.

9.17    We are off to meet Sarah for a walk in the Uckfield nature reserve.  I think the Aran woolly hat that my Mother knitted me over forty years ago is coming out for the first time this winter, it still looks pretty much like new and is the warmest wool hat I have ever possessed.

9.30   I don’t think I have ever had to wait so long to get out of my drive.  Infact most of the time I can pull out straight away with nothing coming from either side but this morning they just keep coming and mostly more than one in a vehicle, wearing no face masks, very odd.

I pull up outside Sarah’s house and we drive in convoy to Uckfield.  This is where I went last week with Pat and Sarah would like to do the walk.  We park up and set off and I try to remember the way, not difficult you would have thought as there is only one main path but this is me we are talking about and I just can’t find the gate we need to find to cross the road and enter Lake woods.  Fortunately we happen upon a couple who tell us the way at some length and I think we each think the other listened properly because we soon get lost again. We meet another man and woman and the man gives us some more very convoluted and lengthy directions.  We set off again more determined and without a clue amongst these paths which to be fair all look exactly the same.  We come across a man mending a bit of pathway and have to yell as he has ear phones in.  He tells us to go back the way we came and up the hill.  On the way back we meet the woman we met earlier who tells us we are going the wrong way so we creep past the man working on the path and then decide to give up and try again another day.  It was a pleasant enough walk walking in circles and Sarah was very patient but I get the feeling she will suss it out next time.