Only 5 more messages on this thread and we'll have to move house again.
Grammaretto Your poor Mil and you too. This sense of isolation, now made worse by total lockdown in UK, is physically and mentally debilitating.
Like you and dragonfly I've been wondering what it's all for, why the heck we bother but the fact is, this is life isn't it? Good or bad, we just have to put one foot in front of the other, grit our teeth and keep going.
I suspect this is what it was like during the war; that feeling of endless conflict and fear.
But they got through it - and so will we.
Of course it helps if you don't do what I did yesterday and try to tackle craft work which I optimistically and completely erroneously, believed I could still do.
These were the things which once made my life joyful and meaningful.
So of course, having failed, I felt more depressed than ever
As my mother used to say, 'You're a fool to yourself.'
When we move to a new home, I have a small project for those who care to participate but I'll wait until Doodle's made sure Jeeves has done all the cleaning and hung the curtains.
Meanwhile, 6th January is National Shortbread Day.
You are all in my thoughts.