Solitude

This week we made our last trip into the city for what I expect will be a while.  At midday we were the only people at the Lawson railway platform.  The train was also nearly empty.

We would not have braved this trip, especially on public transport, but my husband really did need to see his eye doctor and needs me as his seeing eye person after his appointment.  So I took this opportunity to check out what things were like in the city.  

The few people still there were respecting the social distancing guidelines.

Going home at 4:30pm which is usually the onset of peak hour rather unbelievably the corridors at Central we all but empty, like it was midnight.

I know many, many people have had their lives turned upside down by the current events.  At this point mine is barely changed.   We are retired and I am by nature a solitary person with plenty to do at home.  The thing I will miss however is going to church each week.

Last Sunday we went to our Kandos-Rylstone church for the last time for possibly a long time.  There was no problem with social distancing as our congregation is small at the best of times.  But it was interesting to realise how much hugging, shaking hands etc normally goes on at church once it was missing.

Today we attended church the new way.  We chose to join with our city church family at St Andrews Cathedral and will do so each week.  

How are you getting on with the changes?

A book I have read recently

I have tried another audio book Solitaire by Jane Thynne - a spy story set in World War II Berlin. For me this is reminder that the world has seen bad times before and the world's current troubles too will pass though may change us in the process.