Sunday, 24 January 2021
Life goes on.
If I was ever trying to find an excuse for blogging this has been it. During the last week I have been contacted by old friends, people I have met on cruises, local church goers, comrades from earlier times with whom I exchange Christmas cards only usually. So many old friends have looked for the blog and responded. During this period of isolation this has been wonderful. I will certainly continue whilst I am able. This morning its very grey outside...but Falmouth is clearly visible and the boats are still coming and going. So life goes on..and I am glad to witness it. Several old friends have phoned including those who dont live too far away but we are no longer able to visit each other . One or two old friends have pondered a visit here expecting there not to be too many police about here...and they would be right but the friend who got stopped on his way into Cornwall was pulled over by the police and sent back. Having a second home here is not counted as a good enough excuse apparently. This cheers me even when it was a good friend who got sent back. The road outside is quiet. I assume that we are all trying to follow the rules now to stop this tiny killer from decimating us. Lets hope so anyway. Life isnt the same...and maybe never will be but its still good...if we let it be.
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Good morning from a cold and frosty Suffolk
Isn’t it wonderful how old friends, ‘casual’ friends and new friends can and do keep in touch via phone, letter, email and blog!
In some small way it brings us all closer together even though we are many miles apart.
I had a lovely email yesterday, with photos attached, of a distant friend’s brand new great grandson. It was a wonderfully life affirming message of hope and joy in this strange world.
Keep safe
In terms of friends, we've never talked on the phone, only through the medium of this blog, but I don't feel a stranger. Living in North Kent, it would be impossible to try to visit you and unwise as well.
I only travel for medical reasons, for shopping or as this week, for a funeral of a very good friend at the Crem, as I have been asked to deliver a eulogy. It will like any funerals we have in church, a maximum of 30 people, all socially distanced. My Vicar asked would I robe, but I said no, that is for him, I am not attending as a Minister, but as a friend. I will be taking the widow, in my car, as I have been in a transport bubble with the family since the first lockdown, we will not have any one else as each guest(s) will travel in their own transport.
I also have an appointment with my Osteopath on Tuesday, who operates slightly further down in Kent, about 14 miles, and I have a need for the treatment and crucially an appointment card for that appointment, with past appointments recorded on it. If the police stop me for being to far from home?
UK....I do think of you as a friend...we go back several years..Friendship is a highly complicated thing...but you have always been supportive and pleasant and over a good many years that counts for quite a lot. I do know someone stopped by the police whilst trying to get here but an appointment is I think different. You should be alright. Whereas my friend had to go home..Strange times these!
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