2021 Approaches

[sleepytigercub]

Hi all. Well, we seem to have survived 2020 (albeit very quietly). Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Who has big plans for 2021 assuming normality returns at some point? Working from home is my new normal and likely to continue beyond the crisis as it's worked out so well for my team. I miss the company and the chat, but I can't say I miss the M77 at midnight!

Highs for me of 2020 oddly was having enough work to keep me going in a safe environment when so many others either had no work or had to put themselves in danger.
Lows were Dad being in the home and us being unable to visit. No complaints about that, but it has been hard.

[obeeky]

I don't really have any plans, except for travelling to Stockholm when we can travel safely. I will go shopping more and eat in restaurants when we can. I will also continue working from home I think.

Highs were also having work and a really supportive team, and a good consultant and gastro team and getting an op that had been postponed for months (and I had been told in March it would not be funded). And experiencing a lovely easy companionship with homeboy in lockdown which made it much more bearable.

Lows - the 4 bereavements of this year have been tough to process. I haven't found it easy to manage the hope/disappointment of two failed treatments this year. Steroids work but I can't stay on them long term. I haven't felt like doing art much and I've had to completely rely on homeboy to get shopping/meds etc. which I really didn't like. I have been into shops less than half a dozen times since March and I really miss just going and browsing.

[FloraTrevelyan]

I have lots of plans for when things can get back to normal, none of them very dramatic, just doing stuff I love, like travelling to London, Scotland and Cornwall again. There are things that I'm always saying I am going to do/do more of which I'm definitely going to get on with, such as seeing my friends and extended family and getting to the theatre more. 

I have a vague notion to sell up in Kernow and buy somewhere in Scotland pre-independence/potential re-entry to EU but I don't want to pay two lots of Capital Gains Tax in one year so it might have to wait <hits self for being a bad socialist> 

I've realised recently I've become less tolerant of other people's crap and am far more likely to call it out, even if it loses me friends. I don't know if that's a Covid development or middle age! Either way, it's given me what Vic Wood used to call "a reckless edge.' I shall probably end up alone but righteous 

Highs have included having lots more time with my kids, which has been hard at times but still a privilege and one I think I'll look back on with gratitude when they have flown the nest. Merc and I have been able to have time together without one of us constantly dashing off to a motorway. I've got on with lots of home-based things I've previously put off such as doing my family tree and redecorating, both have been a pleasure. And seeing the utter decency and selflessness of some people has been immensely heartening. 

Lows have been the usual stuff, missing out on things that give me pleasure. And the huge sadness at seeing so many people ill and dying, and so many other people really not helping the situation with their own selfishness and stupidity (see comment above about being less tolerant of other people's crap!) 

[jlosid]

I dont feel like I want to make plans for 2021... yet!

But summing up my year in stats so far in the 12 days of 2021:

Number of books read... 3.5
Number of miles ran... 36
Number of miles walked... 26
Number of cliffs walked... 1
Number of birthday cakes eaten... 1
Number of calls to my mum... 9
Number of video calls to daughters... 10
Number of days doing workouts... 6
Number of bottles of wine/fizz drank... circa 5 (give or take)
Number of days I have worked... 3
😂