Even after a year of being almost entirely at home, it still surprises me how quickly time passes. I have mostly settled in to working two full days at my archive job. Occasionally I will have a day when I just can't get into what I am doing, or spend too long on one thing, and then it can drag, but fortunately that isn't happening too often. Although M went back to work last week he had the weekend off and will not be working again until Saturday. H has a week of (remote) college this week, and TG has been doing online school but is back to school in person tomorrow. We had to do an emergency order for a new pair of school trousers as she had outgrown her previous pair, and rather a lot of mud had to be got off her trainers. I am very grateful that her school's uniform rules allow black leather trainers (sports shoes) as they are comfortable, practical and robust. In fact, her uniform generally is comfortable and practical - burgundy cotton jumper, white polo shirt and plain black trousers (not jeans or leggings). No faffing with ties or blazers.
I am usually managing to squeeze a walk into my working day and we managed to get out on both Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday was wet and nasty, so I stayed in, though M decided to walk down to Tesco to get a few bits. I did drive to M & S Food in the afternoon, also to get a few oddments, but mainly to pick up a click and collect order. I got the oddments but completely forgot about the order until M asked about it this morning. Oops! He then kindly went and got it for me. This afternoon he also went to Waitrose to pick up a John Lewis click and collect order. Our vacuum died at the weekend; it was a cordless one and refused to recharge. Fortunately it was still under warranty, and as the John Lewis stores are closed we were told to send it back via a courier and given a refund. We ordered a replacement which has a five year guarantee - given the speed we seem to get through vacuums this is a very good thing! After he got back from collecting the vacuum we set it up and tested it. The last one was a Bosch; this one is a Shark and on first impressions we like it a lot better, so the unexpected demise of its predecessor has turned out to be a good thing. We then went out for a short walk before cooking dinner.
Covid rates are still falling steadily, though a bit more slowly. Our local council issues a Covid report every week, and today's really showed the effect of vaccinations on older people working through into falling cases. The graphic on the left is all cases in our area since the start of the pandemic, and the one on the right the last week, with no cases at all in the over 70s and none in women over 60. Very encouraging! Here's hoping that things don't start to go downhill again now the schools are back.
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I am sooo leery about 'opening' up here. We have too few persons vaccinated, too many cases, too many variables! As the President said last night, now is not the time to stop being careful! ... In any case, our schools — fee based and religious — have been holding in person sessions all the while. Sigh. The free schools (what we call public) where we live will be returning grade by grade a couple of days per week, over this coming month. We'll see how it goes ... 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Vaccinations here should be more widely available in the coming weeks. Many prayers all round! Those daffodils are gorgeous
Vaccines really should be the game changer, and once more people are vaccinated than not that will be the real turning point. I think we are up to about 40% of adults having had at least one dose, so getting there. Hoping your school return doesn't disrupt progress.
In our state we're at about 11% fully vaccinated, I won't wager on when we'll be at the goal of 80+% of the over-16s!!... what an extraordinary era to be walking through ...
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