Today and earlier days

Today and earlier days

So in the last couple of weeks, Trump administration had to admit to defeat. My very clever compatriots announced that at last there was hope to kick the plague's ugly bottom- the vaccine, they developed was 95% effective so that I was optmistic! No make that elated. Impenetrable November skies failed to cast shadows on my mood. 

My husband took me for rides to the desolute streets; shops shut, restraunts darkened, a few  rusty leaves clinging on the trees.  Grocery shopping filling our days along with some work on zoom and my childrens' homework! Oh a random encounter with an old university friend in Kensington who had been a royal in the past! Albiet an Arabic Princess. Of course she had an amazing life! First marrying for love to another rich Arab (and having a little boy who is now a dentist). Then accessing the covid vaccine via a trial session! Living in Kensington, jetsetting around the world. Becoming a highly sought after teacher for a very prestigious fee paying school for the love of duty!

I didn't tell her anything about my life. Instead we exchanged numbers.

Then boom, the first case of covid in my children's school, then another, then another so that I couldn't take my kids to the school for a whole week. The headteacher and the deputy head are feeling very rough.

Back to zoom classes tomorrow with my daughter as her bubble has already closed. Hoping to send my son to school on Monday after a deep clean in the school.