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Iceni Columnist Mark King
The Diary of a Norfolk Family By Mark King
What can be said about recent events that hasn’t already been said?
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It’s impossible to escape the medical crises that unfolded with such speed and drama. For every up there is a down, for every negative there is a positive and so the positive is what I have tried to concentrate on during the Covid-19 scare. The first positive about the lockdown period has been time. Yes, precious time. No more dashing from A to B, B to C, C to D then back to A ferrying children to friends house, parties, clubs, groups, sporting and school events. No more having to fit in social events and going through the diary while on the phone trying to arrange convenient dates for all concerned only to find out the only free dates are three months ahead.
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This then leads to the second positive and that’s the feeling of being guilt free. If you want to sit in the garden on a glorious sunny Thursday afternoon at three-o-clock supping on a cold beer while doing absolutely nothing but watching nature in all its glory, you can; feeling absolutely guilt free because you know at that present time so are the majority of the people in the U.K.
So what if you haven’t managed to build a multimillion pound Grand-Designs style house with your bare hands in only six months, when it fact it really took you ten years to paint the final room in your home after you first moved in? Who cares? Who cares if you haven’t walked bare foot through every country on this planet, eating fried insects from some doggy street stall located over an open sewer? No one. You can just sit in your garden and feel happy that you are not wasting your precious time on this earth because you aren’t doing this or doing that.
The third positive thing about the lock-down are no more of those annoying little bits of old tyre rubber that are used on 3G sports pitches and come back with the children to infect every corner of your home. I could go on, but it’s back to my beer and the sunshine for me.
