There was a "village do" on Saturday.
The pub was open! "Open" means you could go to the front door and ask for lager or bitter. This was served in a disposable cup, which you (obviously) took away with you. Hil and I took our own glasses; an attempt to reduce the amount of rubbish we are all creating. The beer cost £3 a pint, he said it was cheap as there are no labour costs.
A catering van was serving crêpes in the local car-park for lunch-time. The savoury choices were basically ham, cheese, mushroom and garlic. There was a huge demand and they had run out of eggs and other choices. We waited in the queue for an hour to get served.
It was another glorious day. The weather has been the saviour of this lock-down period. We sat in the garden until late in the evening listening to music.
Non-essential shops were allowed to open on Monday (so long as they were able to comply with the rules). There were queues outside some of them hours before they opened. People just can't wait to get back in there. Me? My enthusiasm for queueing expired many weeks ago.
We are still breaking machinery. The kitchen stick-blender has been making strange noises for a while. It finally gave up. Amazon is on call again.
I notice I have been running Zoom gymnastics sessions for over 2 months now. I have 24 session plans saved, each of them different.
We must take time to remember the things we have enjoyed during this period:
- Making the garden nice, and having time to enjoy it
- Time spent with each other, including free weekends