A Giant Leap!

Today's headline refers to a series we've been watching on Netflix called Away, I can highly recommend it, and I thank my wonderful parents in the UK for telling be about it!

Take a look at our lives 6 months ago, just cast your mind back

Holidays were two a penny, we never thought twice about booking them did we, Nights out in the local bar with none or very few restrictions. family lunches, who could ever have predicted this???

These days we are afraid to leave the house without a mask because if we are spotted by the local law, a massive fine could be the outcome,

I, along with many others find myself questioning absolutely everything. Business is obviously quiet so this would be a perfect time to book a cheap flight to visit family for a few days. I could kip on someones sofa and as happy as i would be to self isolate, it would neither be fair to the people I was travelling with, or to the people I was staying with. I could visit my family but not my husbands, or we could visit his family and not mine and that is simply not fair. I am tempted by the 7.99 price tag for a flight but for now I will be staying put. People can fly here to see us, but most of them cannot do the two week isolation upon return let alone get travel insurance. 
Now with the news of new restrictions coming in to force there is the added risk that we would be unable to get home.

The news is also changing by the hour with more local lockdowns, although I think the media does make the headlines far more dramatic than they actually are.

A headline can read
"Lockdown immanent" however when you open the article it says that this might happen or that might happen and we are left none the wiser. 

We enjoy our weekends working but we actually enjoy our down time too. We have got very adapt at filling our days. I continue with my guitar practice and I am desperately trying to improve my Spanish. We support our favorite places, we visit friends and we enjoy taking a drive out. 

Lockdown it has to be said, has sadly brought out the negative in some folk and its sad. It has turned some people very angry which is completely understandable as the whole situation just messes with your head. I can be really positive one moment but in the next I am questioning everything. our future, our location, our finances, the answer's usually the same

"I don't know" 

We just find ourselves plodding along,
In lockdown the house was cleaned to within an inch of its life, but now we are spending more time there it gets messy, we hardly spent anytime at home before lock down. 

Sometimes you just have to look at the positive and for me it has taught me that life isn't all about work work work and should any kind of old normal return we will definitely not be running around like loons and working all the time like we did before.

We took a ride out to Playa San Juan again this week as we love swimming in the sea and for us, this beach ticks all the boxes. Easy parking close to the beach, showers, and a nice bar cafe where we can get coffee afterwards. Sadly we almost had the beach to ourselves.

When lockdown began I suggested to Eddie that there would be a baby boom in nine months and although I don't come across many expectant mothers the Lidl catalolgue this week is full of things you would need for a new born. It make us smile, maybe my prediction was right!