annanotbob2's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once Long Ago First off, yay USA! We made it! I didn't watch it because I'm on a zero TV news regime, but I scanned the headlines to make sure it all went off OK and it did. Massive for us all that the nuclear codes are not in the hands of ... well, I don't even know what words to use but never mind, it's over and we can relax. Hallelujah. Here the covid death figures are terrifying, 1,820 today. This is the aftermath of Christmas and the New Year - the new infections figures are going down, slowly, but steadily. But still, fuck.
Once upon a time, beyond seven mountains, beyond seven rivers lived a girl called Bella who liked to sleep. She knew there was a life waiting for her beyond the seven mountains but she wasn't ready for it yet. I was surprised at the positive reaction, to be honest. If anyone noticed a bit of Lady of Shalott creeping in they kept quiet. I'm going to add it to my Bella Bits folder - maybe it's a dream. Then we were given endings, to aim for or to write about or whatever. None of them enticed me to head towards them so I wrote this. And if they didn't die they're still alive today. That's how it is, how it always used to be and how it is again, now. We had that little flurry - around a century of humanity's existence - a little flurry of communication which started with the telephone and grew and grew till we had mobile phones with the internet. For a while there anyone in the world could find out anything at all, could connect with anyone else within seconds, but then came the pandemic and silence.
After that I took the dog out, well, dragged her out for a walk in the January wind and lashing rain, Storm Christoph, apparently. I had the right clothes - long waterproof coat, nylon waterproof trousers and a very fetching hat, with ear-flaps and a big brim. In the end my feet got wet in the walking shoes but they worked like a wet suit, and my feet weren't cold. It was fine and off we went into the hills, feeling utterly invigorated to be out in the weather, icy rain stabbing at my face but the rest of me well wrapped and dry, my glasses protected from the rain so I could still see. I ordered another pair of winter wellies, from Milletts (UK outdoor activities supplier) and they're on their way already. I went for men's as they only had women's in size 3 and I'm a 6. For reasons I cannot begin to understand, the men's sizes were listed in European and they only had 38 and 40, not the 39 I really needed. I thought 40 as I can wear thick socks to pad them out, though I don't have any thick socks. Yet. Enough of this nonsense. Three Good Things today: Night night xxxx 10:52 p.m. - 20.01.21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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