Roadmaps for the soul
Feb. 26th, 2021 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI regard myself as a fairly cheerful pessimist: I'm pessimistic because you get fewer unpleasant surprises that way. Optimism makes me grumpy. I'm probably just being contrary, but the suggestion that things may be improving makes me automatically think the opposite. Promises that the vaccine unlocks everything did not make me anticipate any great change in my routine, and as for Boris's long-awaited road map out of lockdown - well, would you buy a used road map from this man? The proposed date of June 21st (one of the dates which the map was not going to contain...) just left me grumbling bit late for midsummer...
Despite which, when the drive home from my vaccination took us past Lidl, I did think, maybe we'll be up for visiting Lidl soon.
And even with no faith in Boris's roadmap, just the reminder of midsummer set me searching for holiday lets on Lindisfarne. As D. had reported earlier, there seemed to be fewer propperties on offer, and most of them already booked for the crucial week - but eventually I found something acceptable, with room for four of us if the current schedule holds and D. andvalydiarosada are able to join us, not too big for two if the rules chage and forbid that - or permit them to join us, but only on the 21st... Who knows?
I am trying not to think of this as a promised holiday (in fact, not to think about it at all, now it's sorted). It's insurance, because I would be so angry if the trip turned out to be permitted by restrictions but impossible purely because it wasn't booked while it was available). But I do feel more cheerful this week; perhaps that's just because the sun is shining.
Despite which, when the drive home from my vaccination took us past Lidl, I did think, maybe we'll be up for visiting Lidl soon.
And even with no faith in Boris's roadmap, just the reminder of midsummer set me searching for holiday lets on Lindisfarne. As D. had reported earlier, there seemed to be fewer propperties on offer, and most of them already booked for the crucial week - but eventually I found something acceptable, with room for four of us if the current schedule holds and D. and
valydiarosada are able to join us, not too big for two if the rules chage and forbid that - or permit them to join us, but only on the 21st... Who knows?I am trying not to think of this as a promised holiday (in fact, not to think about it at all, now it's sorted). It's insurance, because I would be so angry if the trip turned out to be permitted by restrictions but impossible purely because it wasn't booked while it was available). But I do feel more cheerful this week; perhaps that's just because the sun is shining.
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Date: 2021-02-26 08:50 pm (UTC)I fear Brits will be all dressed up with nowhere to go as it's not just about us and an awful lot of places (step forward EU) are making a real pig's ear of the vaccine rollout- I really do wish Macron would shut up- he is becoming personally responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths!
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Date: 2021-02-27 11:10 am (UTC)