Difficult times

Ok so I didn't have Coronavirus which is good. I think it was exhaustion really. Feeling a lot better now.

Boris's update yesterday has obviously changed everything. I'm trying to get my head round the fact that all my social activities are about to stop. Of course this is of miniscule importance compared to the prospect of people getting seriously ill or dying.

It all seems so unreal and sudden. On Friday we went out to the theatre. Now the theatre is closed. For how long? Who knows?

We haven't heard what's happening with our church but others in the area have closed and presumably ours will too. Who would ever have thought that churches would close? 

P says the last time theatres and churches closed was in 1665 during the plague.

We are to stay away from restaurants and pubs etc and avoid non essential travel.

And non urgent operations are cancelled. We are only to go to the doctor if it's really necessary. NHS staff are under immense pressure. Holidays are cancelled and people are stranded abroad. Businesses are under severe financial pressure.

People over 70 are shutting themselves away in their houses and most of us are severely restricting our social contacts. And many are worrying quite how they'll cope with that.

And there have been 55 deaths from Coronavirus in the UK.


Who would ever have thought that all this would happen?

If you are reading this of course you know it all already but some day I'll look back and I may not remember quite what it was like.

Praying for everyone affected all over the world. And that it will stop, that it will come to a sudden, abrupt, miraculous halt.