What a strange Winter it's been, biding time and tuning in to the various Coronavirus dashboards each day watching the numbers soaring and declining and reflecting on what it means for oneself and the wider world. Sue and I have weathered it better than most I reckon, blessed by relative financial security and through our travels a degree of resilience to hardship and uncertainty. Routine has helped, every other day I go for a run - this is the Queen's Scone and Devon Park on a wintry February, usually the home of Newark Parkrun, now suspended for more than a year.
Sue's two allotments have given her much needed space and as well as working on these she's turned the house into an impromptu greenhouse. Here her cucumber plants are slowly taking over. Fortunately they've now been relocated to the poly tunnel on the nearby allotment at Fleming Drive. Actually I was quite sad to see them go.
On the days I don't run I take Poppy for her morning constitutional and now even the Canal and Rivers Trust have started their Spring cleaning by dredging the mouth of the local marina. I took this a couple of days ago and today, 29th March is the first step for England out of the Winter lockdown, with outside meetings of up to six people allowed as well as the lifting of a blanket travel ban. Here's to brighter and hopefully happier days ....
