It’s just that easy!

(For the annual ramblings, see entry for 1 December)

I’ve been as circumspect as I can each time I’ve lowered the drawbridge, but I’ve still caught a cold (a related but much less newsworthy pandemic virus).  I shop at the quietest times (but Sainsbury’s is jumping with pickers ‘n packers at crack of dawn).  I scrupulously wear a mask, sanitise hands before and after shop visits, and disinfect basket and trolley handles.  I keep my distance as best I can, but the rest of the world doesn’t seem to make the effort: notably, I have to say, supermarket staff.  

It goes to show just how easily a virus can be caught.  It also reminds us that masks will help to stop us passing on a virus in exhaled droplets, but they won’t stop an airborne virus getting in.  Oh well, let’s look forward to having arms like pin cushions.  We’ve both had flu jabs this year, Martyn had a pneumonia vaccination on the same day (and had a nasty reaction), and I’m still aching slightly from Monday’s shingles jab.  Small price to pay.

Most of the greetings cards are away now, and we’ll get the last of them on their way today if it stays fine. It becomes an expensive business, now that stamps are becoming ever more expensive, but it gives us pleasure to knock up a card each year, and more to send and receive greetings.