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Blogging Challenge 2021 - Scottish Borders in Lockdown
Recording My Everyday Life - A Picture for Future Generation
A PANDEMIC PANIC threatened in the early days of the first Lockdown, when toilet rolls, hand wash soap and paracetamol vanished from supermarket shelves. I admit I followed the herd but not excessively so, as some rationing per customer was soon introduced. Various food stuffs were hard to get such as tinned products and one week I could not get any eggs in the three outlets in my village. But things calmed down and shortages have not become an issue again.
Empty soap shelves in the supermarket - March 2020
PONDERING ON THE FUTURE - what will life be like when we resume normality? I wonder. Will people return to their former activities, to societies and cubs, to church service? What will the economic situation be like? And what effect long term will it have on society and young people in particular, who have missed so much education and risk years of unemployment? I PREDICT we will still for some time be wearing masks in public places and observing social distancing.
In the meantime, I take PLEASURE in little things such as a cheerful clump of daffodils, or or the first bloom this spring of a geranium on my kitchen window sill.
I am so looking forward to April 26th when non-essential shops re-open, together with cafes, restaurants and pubs - cue for some retail therapy and a meal out, after 5 months of me home cooking.
So we PERSEVERE and aim to be keep POSITIVE
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You really have done it tough there haven’t you. Now we’re “suffering” from vaccination ineptitude so I guess Patience will be required. Honestly, I can’t see life as we knew it pre-covid coming back into play any time soon. Locally we are in shock having had to wear masks everywhere for two whole weeks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Pauleen. At least here the vaccination programme has been a good new story - we had our second jab April 3rd- in good time for Lockdown relaxation.
DeleteIt is very interesting to read about your past year and compare it to mine in the US. Most things sound similar, but we did not have a shortage of paracetamol. (Had to look that one up-acetaminophen). Did the officials say that was what you should take if you got sick?
ReplyDeleteI didn’t know there were other names for paracetemol. Here it is the number one drug that doctors recommend as a home remedy for pain relief, and you can buy it in supermarkets, etc without the need for a prescription - but only two packs at a time.
DeleteI think the little pleasures go far in helping us persevere. Your geranium is bright and cheery, and I wish you all the best as things begin opening up again.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Deborah for your kind comment.
ReplyDeleteYes, perseverance -- here, here! Accompanied by the pleasure of small things, like peonies, which will be in bloom near me soon. https://mollyscanopy.com/2021/04/p-is-for-peg-my-mulitasking-mom-atozchallenge/#comments
ReplyDeletePauleen took the words right out of my mouth. You have done it so tough. We get little scares now and then but nothing like the lockdowns you have had. It will be so interesting to see the effect of COVID in say 10 or 20 years time. My grandson was born in October last year. He is a lovely little thing but understandably has not had much socialisation at all in comparison to what I did with my children. No mother's groups. Baby rhyme time is online rather than in person. If Baby Rhyme Time is available in person, the sessions get quickly booked out very quickly due to social distancing requirements. His parents are reluctant to put him into childcare at all for obvious reasons.
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