Day 124

Wednesday 22 July

It’s been a day of completing work as we near the end of the school year. A little strange as the kids are not in and with things still not back to normal yet.

We’ve booked flights for Italy in October. A sign that we are looking beyond the here and now and planning little more into the future, albeit with some risk. It is widely predicted that there will be a second spike of the virus which may lead to restrictions returning. Travel will almost certainly be affected, but how much? We can only guess.

But the economy seems to be all that the politicians are concerned about. Quite right, many would say, but at what cost?

I am, however, still very much in the here and now. The lockdown has underlined to me the importance of living in the moment and enjoying as much of it as we can.

I have this wonderful little book called The Nature Book by Marianne Taylor. I think it must have been a stocking filler one Christmas. I have been loving picking up morsels of knowledge everytime I have visited the loo to take the weight off my feet.

I have been reading the section on ecology and ecosystems. This coincided with me looking at Open University free courses on the natural world. There are some wonderful mini courses available and I signed up and started the one on Darwin and evolution theory according to natural selection.

There’s always time to learn something new or deepen an understanding of something you know the basics of. I feel I will be doing a few of these.