Friday 22nd January 2021 Day 304
10.00 As I write this there are frosty diamonds glinting all over the lawn. The sun is definitely up there shining as hard as it can in January and the sky is a perfect blue and as I have noticed so many times over the past year, when the gloomy weather lifts, so does the gloomy mood and optimism returns. It’s been a difficult week here which hopefully is panning out a little better now, so the sun has come at a good time to enhance it.
I have decided to write this diary more spasmodically in future, partly because I am aware that in slightly different ways I am repeating myself because there are no new happenings of note when you are stuck at home day after day and partly because it’s time I started devoting more time to the house, there is decorating needing doing and I spend far too many days just giving it a ‘lick and spit’(to coin an old phrase) very inappropriate now!
So I will write certainly once a week and more if the mood takes me or….heaven forefend! If something really interesting happens!
It’s day 304 which was the no. of the bus I used to catch to work, longer ago than I care to remember. That brings back memories of standing at a very draughty bus stop waiting for my connection for the last part of my journey, hoping that I hadn’t missed it, thinking that the sooner I learned to drive and got a car, the better.
11.00 Today we have broken with our isolation tradition and met up with Wendy on the edge of the Forest which is closest to both of us. The Ashdown Forest has been in the news this week because it has been swamped with people, not all local, to the point where the wild life has been disturbed by so many people and all the dogs running free but where we are, not another soul and lovely to walk in the sunshine. It is so nice here that we end up walking a bit longer than our allocated hour. We want to take some of the enticing looking narrow paths, some of them still white from the frost, looking at first sight like a stream running away down the hill but of course with our propensity for getting lost, we dare not.
This Diary has kept me sane and focused and it has been lovely to hear and keep in regular touch with friends old and new, which I hope will continue, so thank you for staying with me and I hope you will continue to dip in occasionally.
Penny your diary is always a joy to read! I shall dip in and out and look out for your postings however irregular….well done indeed for keeping it going for all this time it will be a part of history to look back on lets hope one day soon!!!
Thank you Julie that’s very kind. Yes when we get to the time we can ‘look back on it’ we will know it has passed. Let’s hope that day comes soon x