Sooner Or Later Eyam Was Bound To Crop Up

[poliphilo]

Normally the supermarket delivery person would carry the boxes into the kitchen but under the new rules he unloads at the back door and I watch from what I hope is the proper distance. He says he's busy.

I keep thinking about the arrangement they had at Eyam during the plague of 1665 whereby merchants left deliveries at the parish boundary and the self-isolating villagers left money in a roadside vinegar stoup. We've been hearing a lot about Eyam recently.

It's cold and sunny. I've put a garden table and two chairs on the concrete area where the greenhouse used to stand. Ailz and I had a picnic lunch there yesterday. Otherwise it'll serve as a place to have sit-down conversations with visitors- a sort of outside living room.

Ailz's godmother who is 92- has gone into hospital- not with coronavirus- and Ailz is next of kin. The hospital is in Greater Manchester- 250 miles away- but as things stand there'd be no visiting even if we lived nearby...

Comments

[almsfortheinsane]

Here's hoping that Ailz's godmum is ok. And that garden setup sounds nice. :)

[poliphilo]

Thanks.

I've just had my mid-morning coffee outside. Very nice.

[cmcmck]

The Eyam story is no more than a legend, unfortunately.

[poliphilo]

Really!

Oh surely not; give me chapter and verse....