Well..... we are still in the midst of a pandemic, and sources would have us believe that we are far from over the worst. Today, a second vaccine- developed by Oxford University and Astrazeneca- has been give approval, ready for roll-out, and my seventy-nine year old father has been the first in our family to be vaccinated- though his was the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. IN the meantime, we are all expecting further measures to be announced by the government today, with regards to slowing the spread of this terrible respiratory virus.
Christmas was quiet, for obvious reasons. But it was still lovely. And today, we have had the first hard frost of the season.
Poor sheep were freezing! So, Christmas.....
...still had family around....
...still had children singing...
...still had Dave Pooley's brilliant artwork...
....still had Christmas shirts....
....and gin!
Since the summer, we have watched every season of Game of Thrones. Seventy-two episodes, in all. We are late to the party, I know, but WOW! what was that all about. But we've got so into the story and characters. And it's certainly art imitating life!! So many Petyr Baelishes about!!
And we have reinvented ourselves as Jon Snow and Arya Stark! The writer of A Song of Fire and Ice- George R.R.Martin- must have had a crystal ball. Surely the White Walkers could be a creeping pandemic?? That the world had to work together to defeat, though megalomaniacs got in the way!!
Whatever it was about, we've taken to calling How Tun Woods Targaryia!
Still no weddings, though! So the SteveHillman Camera has had to reinvent itself as a nature and landscape photographer.
(guess where that was taken....it's Barrow?)
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