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I walk or cycle. It leaves me solitary but exercise and the outdoors does much for mental health. What will be will be. Live in the moment and enjoy it for what it is. Don't listen or watch the news too much also helps.
I really want to go for a walk. There is a circuit around our house... in total it is 4.5 km and we would normally walk this 2-3 times a week.
The new rules say stay 1km from your house.... technically I think we possibly do but we're not sure if we should go... stay at home means stay at home. The circuit goes by fields and through a forest and we never see anyone else... even before the lock-down... but still... we feel we should stay at home?
We have spent an hour or two digging over the vegetable beds... that feels productive.
I have no work as all concerts are cancelled... no rehearsals... no randonee ... no french lessons. I hope I never take these gifts for granted again.
Gosh Les BrassThere's not so much camino chat right now. I (like most of us) am at home thinking up things that we can do to occupy our lives for the next 2 to 4 to 8 to who knows weeks.
A friend of mine posted on Facebook today that she is lonely. She lives alone and, whilst she has animals, she posted that she feels so isolated already. In my real world I am always out, always busy, always working, walking and seeing friends and this enforced stay at home is hard. Of course, in comparison to so many people I know that it's not 'hard' and I sound churlish but nonetheless...
There is a sadness and an anxiety that creeps in. As an example, over lunch we were sat enjoying the spring sunshine and watching the birds queue for their lunch from the bird feeder... it's beautiful. But amongst this glorious scene I turned to my husband and said... this could be our last spring. How sad that those thoughts are in my mind... underneath and being pushed back... but nonetheless there.
How are you managing this? What is your method of staying positive - what strategies to you employ to stay up-beat in a world of noise and sadness?
p.s. Reading this is sounds like I'm really sad... I'm not... I'm just thinking out loud really.
You know already how much I value and appreciate you. Especially this year, and you know why. I count you in every day to my names in my candles. I would like to take this opportunity to spread out my expression of gratitude and thanks to everyone on the forum. Those with whom I communicate regularly, those I hardly know: thanks for your share in this virtual community. I pray, truly, for us all.As Les said above "this could be our last spring".
Indeed here in champagne my husband Bill and I at 80 and 81 after a year of extreme serious illnesses are battening down. After closing our Marne-side b&b/pilgrim house, stocking medicine and food for the next months we hope to go forward together with courage and strength of will towards the inevitable.
Memories of successful past camimo efforts help me keep going.
Ever since I found this Forum in 2009 each morning I have read/replied to the posted entries of the past day as the Forum became a part of my normal routine. One pleasure across the past decade has been the discovery of digital friends in unmet fellow walkers/readers with whom so much could be shared. Such are you for me
Stay safe and well dear companions,
May we all have the mental and physical strength to persevere.
And on the funny side my daughter recently said that at the end of this ..there will be a lot of divorces and a lot of new babies!!!!
Ever since I found this Forum in 2009 each morning I have read/replied to the posted entries of the past day as the Forum became a part of my normal routine. One pleasure across the past decade has been the discovery of digital friends in unmet fellow walkers/readers with whom so much could be shared. Such are you for me
Gosh Les Brass
You said it the same time as I was thinking much the same
Crying my eyes out this morning at the thought of not being able to hug my children........but it's them that won't hug us in case they pass on anything
And my older girl is in Abu Dhabi with her Italian husband and they're worried about her father in law in Tuscany who is 76 and stuck at home....he won't even let his daughter in and the image of a once proud strapping man who was always on the go..is heartbreaking ..and now this
And yet I cannot let the fear get to me but I wake in the morning fearful for the world right now
I do not fear this situation myself ...there's no point in that, but I have met those who are absolutely terrified. We just all have to do our bit with the recommendations given.
We have to shop and we do so when the supermarkets have the designated "oldie" times and we shop for disabled relatives and my elderly Spanish neighbour ....who has no family here as all her relatives are in Spain and if anything happened to her have no way of getting to her and visa versa
We have to do it so we just get on with it ...otherwise we stay home
Now thank heavens that frontline NHS now have designated shopping time too as the selfish actions of so many here has frequently left then without the basics
The weather is lovely here at the moment as we enjoy the garden and over the next few weeks it will be gardening as usual with planting up pots and borders
Just wondering about your and Sapines walking and exercise .....here in the UK it is still encouraged to walk as long as people keep a distance so from Monday we will be walking in our local forests and coastal paths or walking around the lake just down the road
My concern is that a lot young people have not realised yet how contagious this virus is and it's not going away any time soon ...some of them need a reality check and change their behaviour
We just pray for all the frontline staff out there and hope they keep well and healthy....who knows, but some of us will no doubt need them sooner than we realise
And on the funny side my daughter recently said that at the end of this ..there will be a lot of divorces and a lot of new babies!!!!
All the best
Annette
I would think you could do that short walk, if it is a circuit around your hous, so long as you have your attestation. I count myself very lucky, we have 5 hectares, so many fields to walk in and lots of work to do ........ and the sun is shining.I really want to go for a walk. There is a circuit around our house... in total it is 4.5 km and we would normally walk this 2-3 times a week.
The new rules say stay 1km from your house.... technically I think we possibly do but we're not sure if we should go... stay at home means stay at home. The circuit goes by fields and through a forest and we never see anyone else... even before the lock-down... but still... we feel we should stay at home?
We have spent an hour or two digging over the vegetable beds... that feels productive.
I have no work as all concerts are cancelled... no rehearsals... no randonee ... no french lessons. I hope I never take these gifts for granted again.
There is a sadness and an anxiety that creeps in. As an example, over lunch we were sat enjoying the spring sunshine and watching the birds queue for their lunch from the bird feeder... it's beautiful. But amongst this glorious scene I turned to my husband and said... this could be our last spring. How sad that those thoughts are in my mind... underneath and being pushed back... but nonetheless there.
How are you managing this? What is your method of staying positive - what strategies to you employ to stay up-beat in a world of noise and sadness?
Our lockdown begins at midnight tonight so we are a bit behind the rest of you.How are you managing this? What is your method of staying positive - what strategies to you employ to stay up-beat in a world of noise and sadness?
So, LesBrass, you ask how we manage with all this. I am sanguine. I suppose since I have no family and am retired, I see these times from a different perspective than most. I live quite rurally, so don't have access to many things city folk normally have and may now be missing. I am in the medical field and also have a doctorate in History of Medicine, so again I deal with the pandemic from another angle. I mostly stick to my routine, but there are some things I cannot do because things are closed. There are plenty of things I now have time to do that I have been wanting to complete (although I am ever putting off washing the windows!). I've always lived my life as if I could be dead any time, so have always followed Carpe Diem. I try not to do anything where I'd have significant regrets. I have gratitude for my many blessings.There's not so much camino chat right now. I (like most of us) am at home thinking up things that we can do to occupy our lives for the next 2 to 4 to 8 to who knows weeks.
A friend of mine posted on Facebook today that she is lonely. She lives alone and, whilst she has animals, she posted that she feels so isolated already. In my real world I am always out, always busy, always working, walking and seeing friends and this enforced stay at home is hard. Of course, in comparison to so many people I know that it's not 'hard' and I sound churlish but nonetheless...
There is a sadness and an anxiety that creeps in. As an example, over lunch we were sat enjoying the spring sunshine and watching the birds queue for their lunch from the bird feeder... it's beautiful. But amongst this glorious scene I turned to my husband and said... this could be our last spring. How sad that those thoughts are in my mind... underneath and being pushed back... but nonetheless there.
How are you managing this? What is your method of staying positive - what strategies to you employ to stay up-beat in a world of noise and sadness?
p.s. Reading this is sounds like I'm really sad... I'm not... I'm just thinking out loud really.
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