The world Upside down

What has happened since my last post ? Everything has changed. There is a new world order and even when the present covid 19 nightmare ends nothing will be as it was. Just as there was before and after 9/11 so it will pre and post the pandemic.

Who in their most confused imaginings would have dreamt that John Lewis would be closing its doors, that you could no longer meet a friend for coffee on the high street, that MacDonalds would no longer serve you a tasty big Mac.?

The school playgrounds have emptied of all but a handful of children almost as if the Pied Piper has carried them away. They are still safe but they are confined to their homes. Fortunate are those who have a garden.

It's perplexing and worrying , there is the fear of the unknown . Plans  for the coming months are put on hold  and bookings cancelled .

We  older ones  look back on the carefree retirement years and the calm  days of just a week ago and wonder when they will return.

Who would burdens bear , as Hamlet says, but that the fear of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bounds no traveller returns , makes us carry on ?  We  hope and we wait to come through this crisis safely.