Blue is the colour...

...of the NHS and we went outside again this evening to clap them. They totally deserve it. Neighbours further down the road are firefighters and set their blue lights flashing in support. Today shop workers and teachers were included in the applause. We saw our immediate neighbours for the first time this week and they are well and working from home.

We began the day with our pastor on Facebook and he read meditations from the Northumbrian Community and from Psalm 121 assuring us we are not alone, ever. Then I delivered a card to Rose and her daughter. I knocked but no answer so phoned when I got home and spoke to Valerie. Rose is heartbroken about losing Bill, especially not having seen him for the last two weeks of the twelve weeks he’d been in hospital before he died. There will be four people at his funeral service; Rose, Valerie, Ian and one undertaker. Wonderfully the chapel has the facility to video link the service to family on Canada, so Bill’s grandchildren and great grandchildren will be able to say goodbye.

I came home to spend the day at my sewing machine. I was sent a video yesterday from Croatia about the pros of wearing face masks and how people there are now making them on a huge scale and in glorious designs. So I had a go. Mine may well need some snagging but I really enjoyed making them! My extra. And behind every cloud, the sun shines!

D has been busy too. A better day for us both. Grateful for so much. Thinking of friends here on Blip too.