Day One

So...the respite centre and the MMDC have both been closed for the foreseeable future.....understandably, for the safety of everyone.

Today was Day One of our garden centre free life. We ventured to one of the marvellous UK National Trust parks for some fresh air. They were, at this point, open and free.

They are now ,as I write this evening, closed.

As we arrived, we found ourselves in a queue of cars...not a good beginning for social distancing...once we got into the huge park, however, we were able to keep a good distance between us all...even the cars were parked with social distancing in mind.

 We had a good walk, J tried to chase some deer and then we had a picnic in the car.......He wasn’t happy...the routine was all wrong. Where was the garden centre??? Where were the bacon sandwiches? The fish? The whirly wind things?

Wrong.


We survived our day.

M and I had made a list of all the parklands within a reasonable driving distance so that we could get J out. He needs to go out. He cannot entertain himself at home. WE need to go out. There is only so much Shaun the sheep that a grown up can take!

Now we learn that the NT lands are to be closed. We aren’t completely surprised because although we were all very well behaved today and didn’t get close to each other, it was a lot busier than I think anyone expected. The poor volunteers who were directing us were becoming very frazzled at the never ending stream of cars., flowing into the car parks.

I know this is selfish and lots of people have things a million times worse than us..but the prospect of weeks and weeks of being literally in with J is not a happy one.  For any of us.


So...Day the first and Day the last of free NT entry.

How quickly that time went!😁

May health and goodness flood our world.

The End

PS I am now customer 7411 in a queue for an online supermarket!!!  Might just go to bed.