Blogs from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 6

Weather awful - rain overnight and mist. Another day of not seeing an inch in front of your nose What to do today ? Well it is not a working day so I guess I can do what I want to do. Something or nothing. It did not really matter at all. Has Covid 19 made me feel like that ? So what to do ? Lie in bed or get up . A quick look at the clock suggested it was later than yesterday mornings early morning wake up call. It was 6.15. Should I get up and walk or lie here a bit longer? What does my calendar tell me? - I turn over and look at it . It is one of those deep ones that mean that I need to think. Too ... read more

Sunday morning - Day 85 - "Accept everything just the way it is " - Miyamoto Musashi. That was what I ripped off my calendar this morning. Today was another of those dank grey old days . Just the same as yesterday. It was hard to feel that I wanted to accept everything just the way it is. When the sun shines you feel better . When the weather is not pleasant then it is a whole different thing . I don't know about you but the longer the lockdown goes on the harder it seems to accept it. I know it is for my own good but somehow at the back of my mind I feel enough is enough . I want life to return to something like normal . And that seems as if ... read more

It is Wednesday - Hump Day. Middle of the week. Halfway between Monday and Friday . I have called it all those things over time. Today is work day . It is shopping day and no doubt it will be shorter walk day. If I were working I would be rushing round doing all those things that need doing before work. I would be driving into work putting my digi key up against the digi lock hoping no-one had changed the lock. I would walk up that flight of long long stairs and headed for the tea room to make my first coffee of the work day . Computer on. E-mails read. Ready for the morning meeting and talking to customers all day about the benefits of work. Work at home is nothing like that . ... read more

Tuesday - I am way behind . I think it is Tuesday I am thinking about . Day 80. As I lay in bed trying to drop off to sleep I felt that my brain was like an onion . Each year, each month a little layer was being peeled off as I quietly forgot what day of the week it was . Lockdown had made things worse . Each day drifts into the next . Today will be the same as yesterday . Tomorrow - tomorrow will be just another day . I have lost the rythym of working . Of waking up on a Tuesday and realising it is work tomorrow . That I need to think about what I will make for tea tomorrow and for Thursday. The habit of staring into the ... read more

June has let me down . I remember December in France on the DD beaches thinking that it is only 5 or so months until June when the sun will shine . I hardly expected to be wrong. June can be warm. It can be fiercely hot and humid with thunderstorms . Equally it can be miserable . And miserable this June has proved to be thus far. What with Covid 19 and demonstrations to contend with what we dont need is poor weather . We are into the 6th day of June and three of those days have been rainy. Cold as well .No chance to sit out in the garden with a nice crisp white wine or an Aperol Spritz. If there is an up side it is the grass. The constant rain has ... read more