Overland and Borders

So the day started with a coffee and some more hot banana bread and Craig is probably pleased to see I’m in a slightly better frame of mind than yesterday 😬 he did say “right, you are going back to getting your steps up today!” which I assume means he think it will help improve my mood… 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄

So I got a call from the Beith Trust to ask about my application so told her why I’m no longer working and that I’d like to give something back. So every Friday I will help with food bank deliveries in Gateside and Barmill and I have to complete an application and be interviewed for a befriender which just means calling people who are lonely and can’t get out. So we’ll see how that goes. She hadn’t heard of the NHS First responder thing so I filled her in about that but I reckon we’re not getting used in this area because they have an established volunteer service through the Beith Trust.

In Virus news another 861 deaths in UK hospitals but this still doesn’t include those dying at home or in care homes. That’s taken our total past 13,000 people. Captain Tom Moore has finally stopped walking around his garden having raised £14 million for the NHS.

We’ve also been told that our current lockdown will continue for another 3 weeks. I forgot to say yesterday that Craig listens to James O’Brien on LBC radio and yesterday one of the callers was distraught as he was scared to go out and didn’t know how long he could go on cooped up. He’s been out and people had made fun of him he sounded so sad, so upset and just couldn’t make any sense of this and not being able to see his mum. He was crying while he tried to speak and it reminded me how bad last year was for me and how hopeless it all felt at times. It broke my heart to listen to him. It made me realise how far I had come. I burst into tears as soon as he went off air, I haven’t cried in ages but my heart went out to him.