Everything has changed yet everything is the same. It is a really weird feeling.
Shops (not just supermarkets) are being swamped as people scramble to prepare themselves before going into lock-down for at least the next four weeks. A lot of older folk are already isolating, so a lot of the shoppers now are ones who generally expected their work and lives to go on pretty much as it has always done.
Very few are prepared to be spending time at home, especially when they now have children home from school as well. There are tips all over the place on how to work from home with children present, how to school your children from home, and what sort of activities you can do to stop you getting cabin fever. Social media pages are crammed with memes (many humourous), and messages to each other.
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| The farmer still needs to take care of his stock, whatever is happening around him |
On the other side of all this preparation is life as it normally is. Things go on as usual. We eat, we do housework, we cook meals and do laundry. The clock chimes, the cats need feeding, the lawns get mowed, the neighbour is using his chainsaw to cut down a tree.
This morning I planted bulbs in the garden. Bulbs for some spring colour. I planted hyacinths, ranunculus, anemones, and blue Dutch iris. I never got to buy any daffodils or jonquils, which is a shame but too late now.
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| The bulbs I have now planted |
However I am glad I have planted a vegetable garden, small though it is. And I also bought vegetable seeds online a few weeks ago, of which I am now also very glad. Our food stores are classed as essential businesses so will remain open, but who knows what the future will bring?
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| No separation rules in place here! (Mittens on top, Millie below) |
One thing is for sure, our world will never be quite the same again. We must learn to live new lives, as we do when we have had a serious life-threatening disease, or have lost someone we truly love. It is not easy, and it takes time, but it is possible. We can all do this together. One day we will look back on these days and say “I remember ….”
Unfortunately, this time of global crisis has also brought out some very spiteful comments being made on different blogs. I am tired to deleting them into my spam folder, so have now (hopefully only temporarily) enabled comment moderation. I hope this does not put off anyone from making a comment, as I appreciate the genuine comments that you make.
Sending virtual hugz to everyone J
Margaret.
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