Up and A-May

I’ve decided that today’s blog will be a positive one, and a long one, as my previous efforts so far this month have been the exact opposites of that.  

The weather – finally – has taken a turn for the drier and warmer, and for the first time in ages it feels like Spring in Suffolk!

We had a picnic-style tea sitting in the garden and everyone enjoyed it immensely, especially me. Then we came in to catch up on the news that from next Monday, as planned, more restrictions will be lifted and households can be mixed more, so we can go inside at Ted and Beryl’s and have Sister Sophie over to stay the night! This is all, if you can forgive me sounding like a teenager for a moment, ‘well awesome’.  We have a little boy who has spent very little time with his extended family and our circle of friends. Ted and Beryl had to shield and Sophie runs a care home, so her life has been utter bilgewater for nearly all of the past year, and even when we were between lockdowns (but still sans vaccines) it was tricky spending time with her.

From next Monday, though, she can plan to travel to see us and stay for a whole weekend! The sooner this can happen, the better.

In fact, I’m going to step aside from this blog post for a few minutes so I can give her a call and book some dates in.

 

She’s at work and unable to take personal calls. Bugger.

 

Anyway – it’ll happen. And it’ll happen soon. And we can have Nathan and Hannah over and cook them a meal inside. And we can invite some of our neighbours round for drinks, and have barbecues for a dozen people, and Philippa can start playing badminton again, and I could sit in the bar and have a drink at the sports club while she plays (if I wanted to, which I won’t, but it’s nice to know I could) and she can start visiting her many relatives that she hasn’t been able to see for months, and I can enjoy the peace and quiet of the house (and fill it with drumming) while she’s gone, and several other multitude of things that I never realised were fun and necessary until it became impossible to do them for a while.

We have blackbirds singing in the garden, a gorgeous field of oilseed rape swaying hypnotically in the field nearby, less and less people ill and more and more people protected, the ability to travel abroad, a chance to have a nice meal indoors cooked by a professional chef, etc, etc, etc

Is that long enough and positive enough yet?

Yeah – I think so. Time to sit in the garden again with a cup of lapsang souchong, watching the embers of the sunset.

RC 10-5-21