Tango

I've given up arguing with them! My mum was "disappointed" when I told her that both my boys had been vaccinated, but my eldest has Crohns and gets put on steroids pretty regularly, so he's in the high risk group.

Not everyone unvaccinated has refused the vaccine. My youngest sister is still waiting for her consultant to give her the go-ahead to get it done. She's had Covid-19 anyway, caught it off her eldest son and his girlfriend. Fortunately she wasn't too bad with it. However, my mum refuses to have it. She's had her head filled with my elder sister's conspiracy crap and obviously my elder sister hasn't had it either. They've both been lucky so far, but it's a ticking time bomb!

I've seen loads of people on Facebook saying that they'll ignore any rules this year if any are imposed because of this. Unfortunately it won't be him stuck in the back of an ambulance outside A&E because they're swamped and got no beds! I saw a plea from an ICU nurse earlier pleading with people to be sensible.

We used to go to our local every Saturday night before Covid-19. We went a couple of times since, during the summer, when we could sit outside, but I'm not sure I'd be bothered now. We may go to our local boulangerie and have a beer outside when it warms up a bit, but I'm not fussed about going anywhere that we have to go inside at the moment.

Yep, I can relate to this. What say you @MooN?

Mandy is working from home 2 of her 4 days per week. Her first working from home day was yesterday and she said that she got shedloads more done than if she'd been in the office. Also, having Teams meetings without all the background noise was better too. We've had to wear masks in shops and indoor places since last year, but now we need to wear them outside in towns and other busy areas. Got my booster booked for Saturday.

Black Peter.

Yeah, he looks like he's got a bag of boiled sweets in his pocket!

Our town square looking festive now.....

We were looking into heading back to the UK to my mum's place, but with all the current travel rules and potential new ones we decided that we'll stay here this year. It'll be quiet, but we'll try to make the most of it. Probably do a Zoom call with the family over the two days.