Janeainsworth, congratulation, 50 years of happy marriage is a joy.
Like most families, we have photographs of birthdays during lockdown 1. They’re different from other years. Typical of those birthdays us the one showing a grandchild celebrating his 5th birthday in the garden with his parents and sister. Not the big party with school friends he’d hoped for. My husband’s 70th - just the two of us, none of the celebrations we’d planned.
Everyone i know was following the rules, the guidance. The feeble excuses like Johnson didn’t know, it was a surprise party. There was what even his spokespeople are calling a party later that day, in the garden, a bbq attended by ‘a small number of family members’, including his sister Rachel. The hypocracy, duplicitous ness of him appearing on tv to tell the rest of us the rules, when he knew he wasn’t following them makes me so cross