Fifty Until Fifty

So it's week two of the fifty, although I am late already in posting.  It's been a better week in some ways.  Husband in a better place.  Weather has been amazing.  Managed to see some friends, albeit at a distance.  But it is still ten weeks of lockdown.  Ten claps for the key workers as of yesterday and that is the end of the claps apparently.  From Monday we can see up to 6 people at a time.  Unless, like me, you have to go back to work in which case you have to put-up with whoever.  There has been a week of scandal about Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's Rasputin but I can't even begin to write about that - I will be here for an hour.  One rule for them and one rule for the rest of us sums it up... I can legally see my family next week though.  It is the longest I have ever not seen my mum for.  I never did the travelling on a gap year 'thing'.  The longest I've done is a coulee of months.  I...

I've written a blog before.  I enjoyed writing it although I never gained many followers or readers or whatever.  It was a mixture of family stuff and politics.  Opinion, I guess.  But this one has an endgame in sight.  I realised that it is fifty weeks until I turn fifty.  And in these weird and unpredictable times, I thought it would be good to have a weekly recap to look back at.  I'm hoping some people might join in but I'm not going to tell anyone that I actually know or to refer to this blog on my existing Facebook, Instagram or Twitter accounts.  I may start new 'Fifty Until Fifty' social media accounts though.  Depends how keen I feel! So, last year I had this idea that it was too much pressure to be thinking 'I'll do that for my fiftieth' all the time.  I had lost a cousin two days short of her fiftieth.  She had had cancer for many years and lived every day as if it was her last.  She managed to do so many things fr...