Day 80...

A walk on the common and a chat with these cuties this morning - “mum”  came over to see us first, then the two babies followed!

I’m struggling a bit with motivation over the last few days. It’s feeling a bit like there is nothing to do, and little to really look forward to again. I’m trying to stop myself feeling too hopeful about our replanned holiday even, although there is now a glimmer of hope on the likelihood of that actually happening again now as Scotland has apparently announced a date for phase 3 of the relaxing of lockdown to kick in if all goes well with the earlier bits. If it happens on time it’s unlikely that travel to the Hebrides will be OK’d initially, but we’re hopeful that it might be OK by the time we would need it to be.

So we had a decent walk this morning, but the weather remained grey and a bit drizzly for the rest of the day which didn’t make it feel terribly tempting to go anywhere much else. We popped to Aldi for some shopping, then pottered around here for the rest of the day. I’m trying to cut myself a bit of slack really - ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn’t matter if we have a few lazy days, or if we feel a bit like - in spite of not really feeling as though we are “doing anything” much at the moment, we still need time to recharge the batteries a bit. I suspect it’s the cumulative effect of 11 weeks of things being very far from normal, with a lot of stressful news, missing friends and family, having to deal with the cancellations if so many things....and yes, when you put it that way, it’s probably not surprising that from time to time, it all gets on top of us a bit. Time to just take a step back, remember that things are very far from normal at the moment, and that there really are no rules for dealing with this situation!

Slack very definitely being cut, then!

Robyn.