Feel Good Vibes
Thanks to the UK Government's lockdown measures for care/nursing homes, I've not been able to see my Gran for almost 8 months until today - her birthday. And I wasn't going to let her 95th birthday weekend go to waste due to some BS about "not being allowed in the home". Don't get me wrong, I understand that and I'm not having a go at the care home she is at but we can at least stand a few metres away from the window, call her mobile and see her from the car park surely?
"Nope"
You....I'm not having that!
Then, during one of my runs for the 2,020 km challenge I'm doing (where I'm trying to run/hike a total combination of 2,020 km /1,255 miles in 2020 for Alzheimer's Society), I had a moment of inspiration! I remembered when I visited her before lockdown, her window overlooks a private side street that leads to a river.
I thought I'd surprise her yesterday and went to this side street, gave her a call on the mobile and said "come to the window, can you see me?" and she said she could! The unfortunate thing was, I couldn't see her because I was looking up at the window but it was reflecting the clouds above so it felt a bit strange talking to reflected clouds (my friends joked saying I'd managed to tap in to the direct line to heaven LOL)!
She didn't have the key to open the window so hopefully next time we try this workaround, we'll be able to see each other properly.
Today though, common sense and humanity shone through as my family dropped off some presents to the care home (they spray it down with sanitiser) and the nurses said she can come to the window for us on the ground floor and we could call her mobile, speak to her and see her! It was great to see her again after such a long time and I know now that we have the "backstreet option" available. I just wish I thought of that sooner but I hope it made her birthday weekend positive and that this story maybe brought a smile to your face at least.
Lockdown Uncertainty
So tomorrow (Monday 12th October), our Prime Minister in the UK will make an announcement about some new lockdown measures and we find out how things are going to be (even more) affected by unclear instructions and guidelines for all businesses and walks of life. It's all been very uncertain and I'm pretty sure that will continue throughout the coming months but stay safe everyone, use your common sense and don't buy toilet paper unless you have like, half a roll left haha!
Thought it would be appropriate to share this track called Uncertainty which has been uploaded on my Soundcloud page for a while now but always seems to find itself being relevant for many a situation. Hope you enjoy!
Take care
Nicky