Oh ladies ( I think you’re all ladies)
I’m so very sorry so many of you are struggling so badly..
I wish I could reach out and help to support you, I really do.
This could easily have been me but after a lot of bad circumstances in my life over the years I took the decision not to let them destroy me completely.
This one was taken out of our hands but I just used the same approach.
One positive step I did use was to not rengage with the tv news.
I hadn’t seen any for a good 6 months previously and I decided that there was going to be nothing nice in it for me , so I wasn’t going to torture myself.
Then there were those stupid adverts where they had to keep mentioning covid didn’t they?
So, me and dh looked at one another, we’d just come back into the country where we’d seen no tv for 2 weeks ( March 2020) and I said I’m not watching any of this rubbish.
So, the tv stayed off. We watched a bit of Netflix on an evening. That was it.
( I’ve since seen that the msm has been used to frighten us to keep us in lockdown, well it never worked on us as we didn’t buy into it)
We got out every day. We looked at what looked like nonsense , not driving the car ffs and just did our own thing. Drove to the beach, took 5 minutes. The country park, the same. How were we going to get ill from driving our car? Still want to the supermarket etc
We’d just been evacuated from the Canary Islands with no sanitiser, no social distancing yet we were fine. The rules that were ludicrous and made no sense at all were ignored.
Seeing friends and family. Again, these are my reasons for being. All The hounds in hell weren’t keeping us away from my loved ones.
I have some health conditions and my husband has had a stroke.
We need their support and they needed ours.
We were sensible.
We were all fine.
I joined a support group. Women from all around the country
That’s been invaluable
Things are feeling more normal now.
I urge you to grab every opportunity you can with both hands
We had a 4 day break at centre parc in April . There were 19 of us spread over 4 villas and it was just amazing. The weather was very kind also.
We are fortunate that we have a caravan in N Yorks, so we go for about 4-5 days a week.
We visit lots of different places but york is our favourite. It’s getting much more normal down there.
There’s a lovely buzz and people are so friendly.
We’ve been to the cinema, we’ve eaten inside In restaurants twice and had some fabulous food.
The weather this week has been glorious so we had a big family bbq.
Last night we were at an indoor music gig.
Was wonderful and was well worth the 50 minutes trek to get to it.
My Dd has just popped in to pick up dh to take him kayaking.
She’s paddleboarded her way through it.
I’m having a rest as we are at a big family 18th tonight.
We’ve got a party to look forward to this month and next month we are meeting Welsh relatives in a city in yorkshire before they travel to a hotel near our home to see the rest of our family.
We aren’t going to eradicate covid so we’ve got to look after ourselves. Keep fit and well . Look after our mental health. I’ve been in that dark place decades ago and it took a long climb to get out of the pit...and seize every opportunity while we can.
Fear kills.
I’ve worked hard not to let it in.