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Taken on the first time I have seen my Mum (it’s her garden for those of you not familiar!) in what was then 12 weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have to say I think our Expat years gave us training in not seeing friends and loved ones for months at a time, but it was so lovely to see her, and go for a walk around her village (at a distance) given that she’s only a few kilometres up the road now and not around 800 miles away.\u00a0 \u00a0I have also since managed to see my Dad and step-mum briefly, my Gran, and both sisters all at a broom handle’s length away and outside in their gardens…<\/p>\n
It goes without saying it’s been a strange few weeks.\u00a0 \u00a0 Our home has become our sanctuary, and we have done quite a bit to both that and the garden that we have been meaning to do for ages (not got around to painting that shed yet, but you can’t win them all).<\/p>\n
We have also done a few things we haven’t ever been meaning to do.\u00a0 \u00a0Mr R has become chief hairstylist and has cut everyone’s hair in the house (apart from mine) – sometimes successfully, sometimes not so.\u00a0 \u00a0I have been both loving and detesting my new role as a temporary head to our little (somewhat chaotic at times) home school.\u00a0 \u00a0 Having to do some serious fundraising for the smallest’s pre-school was not on my list of things I ever expected to undertake either, but given that it was hanging on by a thread thanks to the pandemic and a lack of help from the government we had to act quickly.\u00a0 Even the smallest member of the house got in on the act by selling vegetable plants he grew to generous family and neighbours and raising almost \u00a3100 in total!\u00a0 \u00a0Speaking of gardening, that has really become a kind of outdoor therapy in all of this, and it’s also somewhere we have been growing a lot of food things that we can share with friends and neighbours eventually – if it all comes to fruition (literally!!)…<\/p>\n
So there you have it, a little Bavarian Sojourn Covid 19 update for you all.\u00a0 I don’t know where weeks go to be honest when the days sometimes seem so long.\u00a0 Hopefully (despite the fact I don’t think we are out of the woods yet), things will start to ease up soon and we can regain some sense of normality sooner rather than later (fingers crossed!).\u00a0 I hope you are all well and I hope to be back to more of a sense of blogging normality soon too.\u00a0 Might have to write about a few past travels (not yet featured here) for a while yet though hey!?<\/p>\n