2021 - What I did today

After a difficult week in work (including a particularly sad case), I was looking forward to a nice gentle day of doing nothing much except some gentle tidying. Then I learned this afternoon that a doctor I knew a little in the past (and, sharing a specialty, would have expected to encounter on and off for many years to come) has died far, far too young. And now my Mum has just messaged to say she has COVID symptoms and has booked a test for tomorrow. She, my Dad, and my older brother (both my brothers are living with my parents right now) are all in the vaccine group that are just about to get jabbed (just like I was when I caught it), so it would just feel like the universe was being perverse if they all catch COVID now.

So it has been a thoroughly rubbish week all in all, and no tidying has been done.

At least one of my three hyacinth tubs (£2 per pot of three bulbs from the Tesco just up the road) is in full flower, and so it smells a bit like spring.