Saturday, 29 August 2020
Boring.
Well this is getting boring now so I’m sorry if I have no other option than joining in....Life in this pandemic is boring...no argument there. Being safe is boring....feeling fine with not doing all the social things we’ve got used to is boring...I’m boring. Sorry. Although I have friends here I haven’t seen much of them, driving over to the next village is not a regular thing.....it’s easier to just stay put. I’ve seen my friends once this week...but it’s good to know they are there. The holiday let next door will change tenants today judging by the cars being packed up just now...so presumably new people will arrive later...and that is interesting I suppose but mostly life is just boring. But safe. And I suppose that’s the point....we all need to feel safe. But safe is boring! I think the children will go back to school sometime soon...Lockdown seems not to have happened here...at least nothing that I’m aware of. The weather is still glorious...and people are walking past regularly. I have no desire to go to a beach but I assume that some people are still going to swim and play in the sand. Life here in my old farmhouse is safe....and boring is good and very reassuring. I have discovered old clothes, put safely away last winter that need to be resurrected soon in time for Autumn. I am not planning any trips.....yet. But sometime soon I’ll allow myself to think about what is possible. Not cruising obviously.! Ahem!
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Boring and safe is a good motto to have. I went and did a bit of shopping just after 7 am this morning, when the supermarket had just opened, but a surprising number of shoppers were already in the store.
I was in and out through a self service cash point in less than 10 minutes.
Now, I'm home, safe and perhaps boring. But I have our Parish Magazine for September to prepare to launch. I am waiting for the Vicar's newsletter to be put in and it will be published first thing monday. Not printed as that option disappeared at the lockdown so every magazine from April to date has been published online.
The magazine gets a much wider audience than church people, it goes to diocese, to the council archives and to a wide readership who receive it via email.
I don't have any bother finding input from the wider public, but strangely enough the parish, many who like reading it are reluctant to submit articles for publication, so I have to be inventive, look around what our people are doing on social media and with their permission nick it for the magazine.
So boring not so much, always something to do. Now I have to prepare a sermon for next Sunday, back in church, robing and resuming public ministry. And to be honest, after a five month break, I am a bit nervy about it all. I will be wearing a mask, and hopefully assisting at communion, but role change and a flexible attitude seems to be the rule.
Unless you’ve been medically advised to keep yourself isolated most people have started to venture out a bit now. Obviously always mindful of social distancing and mask wearing (when required ) It’s good to get out of the house even just for an hour or two. If you have places with outside seating you could gather your friends together for a drink or two.
I believe we have to try to get a bit of normality back into our lives otherwise what will be the point of it all.
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