Have you ever put something off, thinking I’ll do it another time? That’s how I felt at the beginning of the pandemic when we were locked down. Suddenly I couldn’t do all of those things I had planned to do some unspecified day in the future.
Like for example travelling. My friend moved to Milan, Italy when my eldest daughter was born. I always said I’d go and visit but hadn’t quite got organised. Now I wish I had.
When things got really hard in lockdown I wrote myself a post pandemic bucket list with travel to those places at the top of the list.
Traveling:
Another thing I’ve been meaning to do is
to go to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
I’m really into family history and when I tracked
my Mum’s unusual surname back a few generations
they were all living in Wisbech as farmers. We can
visit the farm where a relative still lives, and see
the roads they lived on. Not very exciting to most
people but it brings it all alive to me.
It’s funny how when you are told you can’t do something it makes you want to do it even more. If I had known I couldn’t hug my family and friends for months I would have made the most of those hugs. I was recently able to hug my parents again after a year and a bit. It was emotional.
The pandemic hasn’t been all bad though.
My husband and I discovered some lovely walks in the country park next to our house and enjoyed seeing many muntjac deer's. We have lived in this house for seven years but we have discovered far more areas in that park now.
It also gave me the time to finish the novel I had been writing for four years.
So what have I learned from all this? Don’t put stuff off because you never know when they’ll be a pandemic.