21 Months of Pandemic Life
Photo demonstrating how little we use the car at the moment – it has grass growing on it! So, it’s about 21 months now that we’ve been living within a pandemic. I remember when it first became serious I was…
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Hello Percy, Good Bye House Sale
Percy is a baby chihuahua who has one eye from which he can see light. We took him to the vet and I asked her to look at his eye as it doesn’t appear to move or react in any…
What a Difference a Week Makes!
Last Tuesday I got a message on my phone from someone who wanted to see the house, they came round on Thursday and the photo is me cutting down the ‘for sale’ sign on Monday! Last week I had even…
One Year On…
So… we’re a year on from our when words like ‘pandemic’, ‘border closure’, ‘mutant strains’ and ‘lockdown’ became a normal part of our vocabulary. Here’s my recollection of the year interspersed with snapshots of Ian and my chats which…
Month 11 – life nearly one year into a pandemic
So now we’re nearly a year into life with the virus and the new normal has started to feel decidedly, er, normal! The situation has been improving – which is good news. Spain has kept schools and businesses open since…
Been a long time…
Well, what a long time since my last blog post. That one was titled ‘Bobbins gets the all clear-ish’ and it was very much ‘ish’. She came home and we let her loose around the house, and she promptly became…
Lockdown Life – Month 7 (curfews, canine coronavirus and internet)
We have 6 cases of coronavirus in the village which moves us into a higher band. Given that any more than a quarter of a person with coronavirus moves us into a higher band, it was sort of inevitable. But…
Lockdown Life – Month 6
I was looking at an email I sent mum back at the beginning of March. I said I would postpone my visit for Mother’s Day because I wasn’t sure how this virus thing was going to develop. And then a…
Lockdown Life: Month er…
So things continue without much change. However, living in an area which is not greatly affected by the virus means we see things differently to people in Madrid. Extremadura is seeing a rise in infections, but nothing like some of…
Lockdown Life
Spain is experiencing an increase in cases of the virus, but people seem pretty relaxed about it. The figure that everyone watches is the ICU capacity – and that is pretty much back to normal. More ICU units are being…