A couple of years ago I started collecting Christmas ornaments from places we visit. This year has obviously not been a good one for the bauble collection, but I did manage to get one in the Isle of Wight, where we discovered a Christmas shop on the last morning of our holiday. We decided we liked this one with a combination of Santa's sleigh with beach huts!
This elephant was added when we visited Waddesdon Manor just after Christmas last December. They have an extraordinary elephant musical box on display inside the house, so he seemed an appropriate choice. There is a long walk from the car park to the house, and although there is the option of a shuttle bus, we normally enjoy the walk. Last year, I started to feel ill as we walked uphill to the house, and had to sit down on a bench outside the gift shop to recover. With hindsight, this was probably the start of whatever virus laid me low for the first part of the year, although it was another day or two before I started to feel feverish. It was almost certainly too early to be Covid, but as viruses go it was both nasty and persistent. We have tickets to visit Waddesdon again this December, just before Christmas this time and only the grounds are open, but it will be nice to keep the family tradition going despite the pandemic.
Today has been a very routine Monday. I only needed to work this morning, which made a nice change after being busy last week. The weather was foggy and murky again, with added damp. Really not very nice, but M and I did manage to go out for a walk for half an hour after he collected TG from school. I checked the weather forecast tonight and it is forecasting snow on Friday morning. We don't usually get much snow, so whether it will materialise or not remains to be seen - it only takes a rise of a degree or two in the temperature and the snow will just be very cold rain. Good news on the Covid front is that cases have fallen significantly over the past month. Whether they are falling enough to improve things in more than the short term remains to be seen, but at least we are going in the right direction.
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Oh, the elephant is lovely!
(Tests have now confirmed (tests on blood donated in Dec-Feb 2019/2020) that C19 was in the US, and in our state earlier than previously thought, leading Thos and I to wonder — again! — if the awful 'flu we had was indeed C19 after all .... )
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