Bank holiday and, on cue, comes the wind and the rain: barbeques unlit, a pint in a pub garden only for the hardy.
But there is much warmer feeling, generated by the consistently more cheerful news on the apparent muzzling of Covid.
Hospital admissions have dwindled to the lowest for many months, the death toll is down, some days to just double figures. There is relief and anticipation.
We may be just over a month away from the kickstart of near normal life.
But it does not pay to be carried away. Looking back to last August the omens were just as encouraging but it all felt apart.
We have learned a lot since then and seen the huge difference made by the vaccines with the government’s deserved success in the massive, well organised programme.
Even the care homes are able to indulge in moderate celebration. England today welcomed the belated decision that residents can venture out into a new world.
Yesterday I had a second visit in a month from Robert who spent a day, driving 290 miles, to spend an hour solving my problems.
We are on the last lap of editing my year-long diary into a book describing the heroics of carers.
I have been struggling to find a title but at last think I have found a suitable one - A World Apart ... A Covid Care Home Diary.
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| The valiant carers - Sunrise of Cardiff |
We elderly and vulnerable in care homes have been set apart from ours families, friends and all that was natural and comforting. We have relied on our carers to see us through a dark, sad chapter in our lives.
My book is a tribute to them..Now is a time for tears - and cheers.
Carers - everywhere - have transformed an everyday job into a service; a calm commitment to us that we will never forget.
The tears are of sadness yet relief, the cheers for those who have been with us all the way in what was our world apart.
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