6th August, 2020...The New Normal!

Some things don't change! Furness Abbey has remained stable and beautiful throughout this pandemic, but when I've just switched BLOGGER back on to resume the documentation of our walks, even that has a new system in place...and I can't get rid of the underlining! 

We've walked down here three or four times a week since the pandemic began, but only now is it starting to feel normal again- Jackie has opened her doors again and we are able to stop and chat to people without them jumping into the hedgerow to avoid you or giving you furtive looks because you've had more than you allotted time for exercising!

There was a little bit of sea mist when we first got down here at seven thirty this morning, but it had cleared by eight, leaving everything drippy and dank.

Lots of fruits and seeds round too, considering its only early August. The boy is eighteen in a few weeks time and has been turned down for every apprenticeship or job he's applied for since college closed. This is going to be the terrifyingly new normal, I suspect. No weddings since March, either, though I am now writing book number four!

We had a rainy walk up to Kendal Castle earlier in the week- that's a nice walk if you like wandering, old ruins and good views, and we do!

We're hoping that by the end of this week, things will become a little more normal for our family, although some things won't ever be the same again. Thank goodness for the enduring romance of Furness Abbey and the surrounding countryside!

I am totally obsessed with all things literary at the moment-if you know me, you'll know why- but if you haven't picked up a copy of this year's Booker Prize winner, you need to....it's scorchingly realistic, and transports you instantly. Hope I can write like that one day...