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Photograph by Alistair Pryde of Words & Pictures,
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Ask
not for whom the hound roos; she roos for thee.
(From:
"Send not to know for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee." John Donne, 1624)
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March continued much
as February had been – wild swings of
weather (sometimes within a day) from beautiful
sunshine to perishing cold. But spring is always
a nice time of year, with the evenings getting
longer. Then we have the horrible time when
government decides that we should all have jetlag
while it forces an hour change for no obvious
reason. We found that the EU had decided not to
have “daylight saving” this year but
that action was postponed because of the
coronavirus pandemic. We’ve never been sure
how tinkering with the time is supposed to cause
an astronomical change big enough to save
daylight and now we’re not sure why the
coronavirus pandemic means that a change to the
law that’s been passed doesn’t go ahead
… maybe that’s why we’re not
politicians!
Anyway, Ian’s now had his first
Oxford-Astrazenica jab and has undergone a
full-day battery of hands-on tests including EEG
while doing tasks, ECG, gait (including a
week-long recording), MRI while doing tasks
(which was horrible) and so on; all as part of
the Newcastle Parkinson’s study we told you
about last month. He finished his stint chairing
the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for
Justices of the Peace at the end of the month,
and there’ll be news following that later.
Lois spends most of her time on-line (it seems)
with all her voluntary work taking place via Zoom
or Teams. Tara had to go to the vet because she
got sick and was given an opioid injection that
sent her, frankly, doolally! Bless her! It would
have been funny had it not been worrying.
She’s fine now, though. Hannah continues on
her PGCE, ending her placement at Park View
school and moving after Easter to the UTC …
she cannot wait. She’s on the interview treadmill at the
moment.
So, in summary, it’s been an uplifting month
… the step towards Spring always is,
isn’t it. We are moving slowly towards a
lifting of lockdown which is nice and we’ve
even had an invitation to a lunch in a marquee
early next month which will be our first outing
and to which we are really looking forward! Could
this be the start of the end of this period of
our lives that we’ll certainly look back on
into the future? Or are we being optimistic? Tell
you what, let’s all be optimistic, shall we
– it’s good for us!(Before you
ask - no photos this month ... we didn't take
any!)
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