It was on Friday of this week, one year ago, that everything was stopped: no more meetings, classes, church services, music practices, concerts... you name it. Plans for the future were cancelled. Tickets for the ballet put on hold.
So where are we one year later? We are still on Lockdown at Level 4 but this Friday there is to be some lifting of some restrictions, namely, we can meet up with another household up to 8 people but do it outside. Care home visitors were allowed one visitor last week.
Travel still restricted. Only shops selling food, alcohol, newspapers, plus the butchers, fishmongers and chemists are open.
This is Milngavie last week at the Friday market that has started up again... all outside in the pedestrian precinct, of course.
* * * * * SOON IT WILL BE EASTER - EASTER EGG TIME * * * *
This week I met up with Ishbel for a walk outside in the early morning... just 20 minutes before she headed back to her next on-line session.
We had a short walk this morning to see if we could find where the swans on Kilmardinny Loch are making their nest. We noticed that there are lots of snowdrops on Kilmardinny Avenue. I told her that Lesley, Louise and I planted them (over several years) about 30 years ago. The ones I planted came from Duntreath Castle’s old nursery garden where a friend was living in the Garden House at that time. All the glasshouses were long gone but hundreds of snowdrop bulbs had made come to the surface of the surrounding unkempt land.
The swans and lots of other birds are still resident on the loch. Are they the same ones that make a nest every year? Do they mate for life?
Ishbel has been doing Lockdown Learning since January. She is pleased to report that after 10 weeks of being at home every day doing on-line classes school for her aged group (Secondary 3) goes back next week but is to be Blended Learning, i.e. 50% at school and 50% at home on-line.
I told her that I had to do a ‘wee message’ as they say in Glasgow. On this past Sunday we held our final concert for the Young Fiddlers. Last September when we realised we could not meet for our usual rehearsals we set up Zoom sessions. It has been a great success! Who would have thought it?! Our concert lasted for 2 hours. The first half was 45 minutes of playing with an interval of 20 minutes then the second half was another 45 minutes. During the interval we held a Quiz. After a musical quiz by Adrian I hosted a General Knowledge Quiz. The prize for the most correct answers was a very big chocolate Easter Egg. I bought the egg earlier in the week from Asda and put it in the back of my car awaiting delivery once I knew the winner.
On Sunday all the children were here for tea, i.e. a 5 pm meal of hamburgers and hot dogs. The children, Ishbel, Alastair, Harriet and Ellie, were very hungry. I was very hungry as I had just finished the 2 hours Zoom concert. I went out to the car in the garage to get some more Ribena when I saw in the back of my car the big blue box containing the Lindt chocolate Easter Egg Quiz Prize awaiting delivery. lt look ever-so-tempting ... just waiting to be eaten!
Mr Nobody must have been about because somehow it ended up being put it on the table where we all devoured everything in the huge over-packaged box!
It was lovely to meet Ish again! We said “Good-by”; she headed back to her on-line learning and I headed off to Asda … to buy a replacement chocolate Easter Egg!
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