More than a 100 days

‘More than a 100 days’

Sounds like a good title for a book doesn’t it.

It’s not though,  it’s where we are in lockdown.

At the start we did some mad videos.  Looking at it all now I think I better get the dancing shoes out again as this pandemic is not going away anytime soon.

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Heehee we look more like this now than the photo taken last year on a day out with lovely friends in The Lake District.

We are very lucky living where we do. On a walk to the postbox I come across so many lovely gardens along the way.

Nearly home now, she says huffing and puffing up the hill.

Our house isn’t called Four Winds for nothing it’s at the top of a big hill and open to the elements.

There’s just time for a cuppa before preparing a tea of salmon fillets, jersey potatoes, carrots & broccoli.


Tomorrow’s job is a trip to the post office with some parcels for friends we won’t get to see for sometime yet.

Remember stay safe and stay local.

See you tomorrow when I’ll be joining the crafters at 

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday 

Lynn 

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More than a 100 days

‘More than a 100 days’

Sounds like a good title for a book doesn’t it.

It’s not though,  it’s where we are in lockdown.

At the start we did some mad videos.  Looking at it all now I think I better get the dancing shoes out again as this pandemic is not going away anytime soon.

.

Heehee we look more like this now than the photo taken last year on a day out with lovely friends in The Lake District.

We are very lucky living where we do. On a walk to the postbox I come across so many lovely gardens along the way.

Nearly home now, she says huffing and puffing up the hill.

Our house isn’t called Four Winds for nothing it’s at the top of a big hill and open to the elements.

There’s just time for a cuppa before preparing a tea of salmon fillets, jersey potatoes, carrots & broccoli.


Tomorrow’s job is a trip to the post office with some parcels for friends we won’t get to see for sometime yet.

Remember stay safe and stay local.

See you tomorrow when I’ll be joining the crafters at 

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday 

Lynn 

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Lockdown day 100 - Sunday

Should this day be marked as significant, I don’t know.

One hundred days since Boris announced the country was in lockdown.  For many of us it had started before then.

We had already started closing our doors on the outside world.  Staying away from the places and people we love.

Did I know then that within days my Auntie Gladys would be gone,  that I had no idea when I’d next see my sister or hug my mum.  No I didn’t.  It’s been traumatic,  it’s been and continues to be sad.

BUT

Also let’s remember there’s a lot of good coming out of this bizarre and weird time.

Encouragement 

Friends keeping in touch with messages, notes, cards, gifts and telephone calls.

Diversity 

Our local pub has kept us all going by opening an ice cream sundae bar and turning their usual menu into a takeaway one.

New routines

Twice weekly shopping trips to our local markets instead of impersonal supermarkets.  Quality food from the fishmonger, butcher, greengrocer and bakery.  At the same time having a good chat and a bit of banter.

Despite the library being shut there’s always a glut of books to read.  New programmes on tv to watch, walks in nature to balance the mood and emotions.

Jobs to do, crafting and blogging and neighbours, dog walkers horse riders and children to keep entertained daily with our garden gate displays.

So despite being 100 days into a terrible pandemic there is some good coming out of it.  I wonder how others will mark today.

Me, I’m watching a feel good film  The Beautiful Fantastic and I know my best friend is too because she rang to remind me we had seen it at the cinema in 2016.  And I in turn rang my Mum to tell her to watch it.  Then I messaged my sister to tell her I’d ring for a chat when it finishes.

So whatever you are doing and whatever the days ahead bring,  just think there’s still a lot of good stuff out there.

Stay safe and stay local

Lynn 

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Lockdown day 100 - Sunday

Should this day be marked as significant, I don’t know.

One hundred days since Boris announced the country was in lockdown.  For many of us it had started before then.

We had already started closing our doors on the outside world.  Staying away from the places and people we love.

Did I know then that within days my Auntie Gladys would be gone,  that I had no idea when I’d next see my sister or hug my mum.  No I didn’t.  It’s been traumatic,  it’s been and continues to be sad.

BUT

Also let’s remember there’s a lot of good coming out of this bizarre and weird time.

Encouragement 

Friends keeping in touch with messages, notes, cards, gifts and telephone calls.

Diversity 

Our local pub has kept us all going by opening an ice cream sundae bar and turning their usual menu into a takeaway one.

New routines

Twice weekly shopping trips to our local markets instead of impersonal supermarkets.  Quality food from the fishmonger, butcher, greengrocer and bakery.  At the same time having a good chat and a bit of banter.

Despite the library being shut there’s always a glut of books to read.  New programmes on tv to watch, walks in nature to balance the mood and emotions.

Jobs to do, crafting and blogging and neighbours, dog walkers horse riders and children to keep entertained daily with our garden gate displays.

So despite being 100 days into a terrible pandemic there is some good coming out of it.  I wonder how others will mark today.

Me, I’m watching a feel good film  The Beautiful Fantastic and I know my best friend is too because she rang to remind me we had seen it at the cinema in 2016.  And I in turn rang my Mum to tell her to watch it.  Then I messaged my sister to tell her I’d ring for a chat when it finishes.

So whatever you are doing and whatever the days ahead bring,  just think there’s still a lot of good stuff out there.

Stay safe and stay local

Lynn 

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Lockdown day 98 - A bit of balance was needed

We are so lucky to live where we do. Right on our doorstep in one direction there’s miles of moorland to explore and when the weather is either to windy, or like this week too hot,  we can walk down to the beautiful Healey Dell Nature Reserve.   I played down there as a child.  Lots to explore and long summer days when we would be out from first thing until tea time and no one worried about what we were doing.

After the horrors of the scenes on tv of people flocking to the beaches with no regard for the safety of themselves or others and the riots at Brixton  we needed the peace of our surroundings to balance ourselves again.

A bit of twig racing over the brook.  Like Winnie the Pooh.

I put a call out on our local Facebook page for some children’s books for our Garden Gate book basket and look at all these beauties that arrived. I’m having a read of some of them, they’ve got lovely illustrations in.

One lady left some books in this pretty bag.  It matches the wallpaper in our utility room. She may never get it back haha.

Speaking of books I’m just on the last pages of this one 

It’s a rollercoaster of a read, you really feel for Catrina.  I won’t spoil her story for you other than to say it’s hard to believe that she’s still there, in her shed, with her music and books as we speak.

Link to book review

After tea of a big bowl of fresh vegetable pasta, then a walk round down the bridle path and back up our lane, it’s time to settle in for Friday night telly viewing.:

BBC2’s - Monty Don for calm and culture.

BBC1’s - The Other One and Peter Kay for laugh out loud stuff.

Channel 5’s - Great Mountain Railway Journeys with Bill Nighy for escapism. 

I always have tons of stuff recorded and I’ve recently fathomed out BBC I-player.  We don’t have any fancy Sky packages but seem to get by with what we’ve got.  There must be over 150 episodes of Escape to The Country on the hard drive thingymebob to go at yet.

As always stay safe and stay local

Lynn 

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Lockdown day 98 - A bit of balance was needed

We are so lucky to live where we do. Right on our doorstep in one direction there’s miles of moorland to explore and when the weather is either to windy, or like this week too hot,  we can walk down to the beautiful Healey Dell Nature Reserve.   I played down there as a child.  Lots to explore and long summer days when we would be out from first thing until tea time and no one worried about what we were doing.

After the horrors of the scenes on tv of people flocking to the beaches with no regard for the safety of themselves or others and the riots at Brixton  we needed the peace of our surroundings to balance ourselves again.

A bit of twig racing over the brook.  Like Winnie the Pooh.

I put a call out on our local Facebook page for some children’s books for our Garden Gate book basket and look at all these beauties that arrived. I’m having a read of some of them, they’ve got lovely illustrations in.

One lady left some books in this pretty bag.  It matches the wallpaper in our utility room. She may never get it back haha.

Speaking of books I’m just on the last pages of this one 

It’s a rollercoaster of a read, you really feel for Catrina.  I won’t spoil her story for you other than to say it’s hard to believe that she’s still there, in her shed, with her music and books as we speak.

Link to book review

After tea of a big bowl of fresh vegetable pasta, then a walk round down the bridle path and back up our lane, it’s time to settle in for Friday night telly viewing.:

BBC2’s - Monty Don for calm and culture.

BBC1’s - The Other One and Peter Kay for laugh out loud stuff.

Channel 5’s - Great Mountain Railway Journeys with Bill Nighy for escapism. 

I always have tons of stuff recorded and I’ve recently fathomed out BBC I-player.  We don’t have any fancy Sky packages but seem to get by with what we’ve got.  There must be over 150 episodes of Escape to The Country on the hard drive thingymebob to go at yet.

As always stay safe and stay local

Lynn 

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