We talked about it earlier in the year and hoped it wouldn’t happen. But when I started writing this post yesterday afternoon I stopped; the Downing Street press conference had just begun. Deja vu all over again.
There are some changes since the Spring of course, including glimmers of hope that more is known about how to treat Covid-19 successfully, but it can hardly be positive that it has come back just in time for the winter ‘flu season – a time when health services are already under enormous pressure when things are running to plan. And we are still facing the same policy dilemma of health vs wealth. I suspect the debates in Parliament early this week are going to be tetchy.
Changes closer to home for me too – both in terms of work (I’ve been seconded to work as part of the national NHS team coordinating the NHS work to increase Covid testing capacity) and home. A previous lockdown view would have been of terraced Victorian and Edwardian houses in SE London, where I’d been living since the 1990s. But now we’ve moved North of the river, indeed North of Watford as my parents (who live North of North of Watford) like to remind me and don’t actually come within the Greater London boundaries any more.
This means plenty of farmland and countryside nearby, so here’s a quick snap taken a few weeks ago before the Autumn arrived, of local Hertfordshire countryside. Quite a change and I’m looking forward to exploring more of our new locality. I suppose one thing about the current situation is that it does encourage you to appreciate everything at home and nearby that you’ve got, even though you can also miss all the other stuff you can’t currently do.
The Photographer's Block 