Sunday, 12 April 2020
Strange days.
Yesterday was the weirdest day yet. I cooked a chicken.....given to me by kind friends...it felt very weird, cooking a bird for one woman. There’s a lot of it left to eat cold so I wont starve....yet. Last week I had ordered food which all arrived yesterday. The biggest shock were the eggs. Two very large trays arrived, brought by a woman who announced herself as the egg lady. I sent one of the trays back but I now have a couple of dozen eggs. At some point of the last week I had sent for a supply of mindful food...that’s how they described them selves...I now have a lot of very odd things, bread, vegetable, fruit....the one thing I’m short of is some butter..however I am definitely not going to starve.....yet! The news arriving daily is all bad...deaths continue despite us all staying at home. Yesterday was the quietest day yet....not even the cliff path brought people past my door. A couple of phone calls helped a lot..to hear another human voice does make a difference. Friends up country facing their own way of self isolating need to chat occasionally. Thank goodness. It is still a very dangerous situation. Just how dangerous is only becoming clear now. So far we are avoiding the blame game but I have no doubts that at some point it will start. But not yet whilst people are still dying.. Lord, hear our prayer!
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I am really glad that you now have fresh food, including Eggs, which are like gold dust up here in North Kent. And being quiet is nothing new for you, we find it strange that our road is quiet, no rush hour traffic. An occasional delivery lorry for either the bakery at one end of the road or the Diary at the other end.
People are out and about and buying essentials in the mini-mart up the street, but all keeping distancing with good manners and greeting each other but noting not long conversations.
The family running the minimart are probably doing much better than in normal times, with people waiting outside politely until one comes out. Maximum of two people in the store at a distance at any one time. But friendly and perhaps we all realise that we are all in this boat for the longer term.
Our daughter in law with her five children moved into a house numbered one before ours three weeks ago, but we have only seen each other to wave and via messenger - as she is isolated due to a blood disorder and kidney failure, needing to go to Goys hospital twice weekly for tests and followup. She is also diabetic, so triple problems. But two children are medics, one a nurse and the other a paramedic, neither are permitted to work at the moment due to the risk to their mother. They are really upset at being home, but with no other option, they are stuck. They are hoping to find NHS accommodation to allow them to return to work, but it is at a premium at the moment.
Having family on our doorstep was completely unexpected, she had to sell her home, but cant afford to buy, so is renting at an extortionate price. We will try to help when things change, but at the moment we are stuck.
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