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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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We mentioned at the
end of last month that COVID was raging …
and that continued into January. There was a
quick, but not completely unexpected, full
lockdown including school closure right across
the country. It was probably too late and as the
month went on, so the situation became worse. The
figures went well above the previous highs. But
the upside was that the vaccinations started in
earnest and by the end of the month pretty much
all of the care home people were covered. For us,
life went on pretty much as before.
These lockdowns don’t really affect us much,
if we’re honest. Interestingly, road traffic
continued much as before (unlike the March 2020
lockdown) so we’re not really sure whether
people are really responding to it! The courts
stayed open so we continued to sit and our
birthdays were celebrated with a fantastic
dial-up Lebaneat meal … the same food as it
would have been, but at a bijou restaurant (ie
our dining room) and the huge upside was that we
were all together. This was the first birthday
celebration with all three of us present for
years. A glimmer of a silver lining, perhaps.
That’s pretty much it for January! We had
some annoying snow that just got in everyone’s
way, but there’s little else to report.
Hibernation, I think one calls it. Roll on the
excitement of February!
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