Sunday 26th April
Over 20 people attend our Zoom church service this morning, and we chat afterwards. Among the congregation we have a nurse and also someone working for a care company. The nurse has adequate PPE, but the care company, doing over 4000 home visits a month, does not have enough masks, relying on full face visors. We have Sunday roast in the garden – with Mum-in-Law self-isolating I feel it is not worth opening a bottle of wine. Mum-in-Law, on the other hand, thinks otherwise and texts to say that she is enjoying a glass or two of the red that we bought her last week. Another quiet walk this evening, just meeting one group of four. One of them wears a mask – the first that I have seen while out and about with the dogs. I call Matthew this evening – he was enjoying his daily exercise when the family met together on Zoom yesterday. He is being furloughed for three weeks from Monday. The architect’s partnership that he works for decided to furlough half of the staff for three weeks, and the other half for the following three weeks. Matt is in the second tranche, and until now has been very busy working from home. The partnerships work has reduced significantly, but not halved. With half of the staff furloughed, the rest have been working additional hours to keep up. Matt is looking forward to a three-week break, although has a list of jobs to do. He will have to do them quietly – his girlfriend Sarah, an architect for another partnership, is still working full time from home.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
