In person

[shewhomust]

I know there are people who have been impatient for the return of in person events: I am not one of them. The purely social (that visit to York to meet the Bears, dinner last night with S.) I am happy with, more than happy, and I don't have any problem about going inside friends' houses, or public spaces like art galleries, even shops, if they are not crowded. But meetings, pubs, book festival events (because it is that time of year) I am reluctant, and likely to mutter about can't we do this online?

Increasingly, I am being outvoted, and when the choice is to do it in person or not to do it, sometimes I have to bite the bullet and do it.

So on Thursday I went to the first meeting in 18 months of the residents' association. I still think we could have held this online, and I certainly think that there were more people in less space than I found entirely comfortable - actually, there was quite a lot of space, there was just a very good attendance at the meeting. People - people who are not me - were enthusiastic about doing it again next month.

And in a couple of weeks' time, the pub quiz will return to the pub: and since the Quizmaster is keen that this should happen, and that it should be well supported, I will be there.

So one way and another, I'd better get used to the idea.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I have to admit that we've got deeply fed up with not doing stuff, so we've gone back to doing stuff!

[shewhomust]

Don't mind me, I'm only grumbling. Certainly nothing in this post - and I hope in this journal - makes any judgement about what other people are or are not doing.

I'm trying to return to doing the stuff that O'm deeply fed up with not doing, but not quite ready to go back to doing All The Stuff - and grouchy at indications that life is heading that way ...

[anef]

I am getting gradually back to doing stuff. M is more cautious than I am. But when you are in crowded spaces, inside or outside, so few people are wearing face masks, it seems insane.

[shewhomust]

Yes, to all of this.