How are you coping with what is getting close to a year in lockdown? ( I know we had august out and about, but that was pretty much it as the North west rates were then bad so we then were back inside). I've found myself more routinised than I usually live my life. Weekends used to vary, maybe I'd be working or have an action packed social calendar, and once a month I'd be in Dufton. Now we can't even drive for a different walk, I am of course, pretty much always home. Thankfully for me home is a happy place, I know some folk are really struggling.
Saturday is guinea pig cleaning out day. (Is it wrong that this is one of my least favourite aspects of my girly not being here, along with the hugs... We still have great conversations by video call but I have to do everything for those guineas).
Sunday has downtime for a jigsaw or a film, there's a church coffee social and a District evening service (which I enjoy except for the weeks I'm tech hosting), my weekly chat with my boy as I take him to his dad's, and then before an early night I read something uplifting in a bubbly bath. It's a real joy that sets me up well for the vast amount of screen time in the rest of the week.
What have you found to keep your spirits up? I like to initiate some surprises that will cascade into the week. Postcards / gifts that vary in time to deliver, so I get texts throughout the week from the recipients. (I don't send them in order to get texts you understand, but it's a frequent happy by product). I've communicated with people in other ways this weekend that have been more immediate so will miss that excitement that comes with wondering when someone will get their surprise. But the good news is it's daffodil season, so at my next big shop I'll be buying lots of bunches to then take out on my exercise walks. Sorry if you don't live near enough...
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