Thursday 18 March:

Today is the first anniversary of when Moira and I first went into lockdown/self-isolation. So much has happened in the past year (and also, perhaps, so little has happened!).
My early morning walk felt particularly poignant – I sat on the bench at the marina and pondered things (by the time I arrived there it was pretty dull and overcast – which was a shame… so no photographs!). There were a couple of fishermen out early.
When I got back home, I uploaded my book draft on to the Blurb website (after making some minor adjustments)(fortunately, there’d been a 35% discount offer in my emails a couple of days ago!)… and pretty amazing to see that within 4 minutes of uploading things, the technology was such that it was already actually being printed out at Blurb’s Dutch office! Posted a digital version on to my facebook page (complete with page-turning!).
Moira and I had our usual chat over morning coffee. Moira was saying she’d been feeling somewhat ‘low’ over the past few days (triggered perhaps by the frustrations of her new phone/finalising Stu’s accounts/frustrations of her new laptop); I was feeling a little the same – mainly down to the fact that I’d been focussing so hard on completing our ‘year of lockdown’ and now had a sense of ‘so what now?’.
I spent part of the morning doing a google/streetview sketch of Palermo, Sicily (prompted by some references to Sicily in my ‘Lemon book’!
We received our regular fortnightly Asda delivery at lunchtime (although, frustrating that bread hadn’t be available – which seems very hard to understand!).
Watched ‘Amelie’ for the nth time in the afternoon (I never tire of this film… and always notice new things it seems).
At 6pm, we ‘tuned in’ to a special “Bristol Remembers” – reflecting on the ways that Covid has affected us all over the past 12 months. Very impressive… and quite moving.
Evening telly: Watched the last half of an old Poirot, then went to bed early to read.
Image: Impressive, sombre sky over the cut this morning…