Hello Grandparents,I am new to this site and it is lovely to be able to converse with you all. I wanted to reply to Lara, who is worried about her parents going out. My brother-in-law and wife, both in their early eighties and both with underlying heath conditions,especially him, keep going out shopping, despite his other brother living nearby and our daughter-in-law who actually works in the shop they use offering to deliver their
shopping.
We had an email yesterday to say they'd been to a nice farm shop quite a distance away! Conversely I'm a bit annoyed by my neighbours in their early 70s and quite fit and active, who are generally lovely people and would do anything for you, having their shopping delivered, when a lot of venerable people can't get a delivery slot. We are also in our early 70s but and going to our local Tesco's once a week during the hour allocated to over 70s and it has been fine and people are behaving sensibly. The worse thing I am finding at this time is not being able to see our 2 1\2 year old granddaughter who we've looked after two days a week since she was nine month's old. WhatsApp is nowhere near the same. Yesterday she said 'I want a cuddle Grandma', it broke my heart. Let's all pray that things improve soon.