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incandescensWell - we've known it was coming for a couple of weeks now, but today on my weekly phone call to my parents I actually said out loud that I definitely wasn't coming down for Christmas.
Back in September we'd hoped it might be possible. Over the last month of lockdown we'd started talking about what we'd do if it turned out not to be feasible - but basically we had known that short of a miracle it wasn't going to happen. So I decided to be the one who'd outright say I wasn't coming on the call today, rather than my parents being the ones who had to say that I shouldn't come.
We're all three of us healthy. It's the five hours travelling down from Leeds to Southampton on the train (no direct planes), including the change midway, that's the big risk.
There will be zoom calls and phone calls and other things, and presents, and texts, and whatever, and I know it's the sensible thing to do - no, the right thing to do. And so do they. We will have a physical gettogether once people are vaccinated and the situation is less severe.
Forgive me this whine; I know it's nothing more than what lots of other people are doing. I'm already making a list of all the things I can do or work on over Christmas and the New Year, since I have the time booked off, in a deliberately strong-minded sort of way.
Roll on next year.
Back in September we'd hoped it might be possible. Over the last month of lockdown we'd started talking about what we'd do if it turned out not to be feasible - but basically we had known that short of a miracle it wasn't going to happen. So I decided to be the one who'd outright say I wasn't coming on the call today, rather than my parents being the ones who had to say that I shouldn't come.
We're all three of us healthy. It's the five hours travelling down from Leeds to Southampton on the train (no direct planes), including the change midway, that's the big risk.
There will be zoom calls and phone calls and other things, and presents, and texts, and whatever, and I know it's the sensible thing to do - no, the right thing to do. And so do they. We will have a physical gettogether once people are vaccinated and the situation is less severe.
Forgive me this whine; I know it's nothing more than what lots of other people are doing. I'm already making a list of all the things I can do or work on over Christmas and the New Year, since I have the time booked off, in a deliberately strong-minded sort of way.
Roll on next year.
