Morning sky

This one's for Jim Murray, my brother-in-law (husband of Richard's older sister Diana).  This morning we got a phonecall to say that he had died suddenly.  Mercifully for Jim, I don't think he will have had any awareness of the massive event (stroke or heart attack) that swept him away.  He'd been recovering well from treatment for a non-life-threatening form of cancer, so we had all got used to the idea that he was a survivor.

So today has been taken up with trying to take in the news... with booking a ferry ticket for Richard to travel to Northern Ireland tomorrow to stay with Diana... and with booking him a drive-throughCovid test, because the other factor in our lives is that Marianna, Jack and Frieda are now self-isolating again.  A child and a staff member in Marianna's class 'bubble' at school have tested positive. Marianna herself has tested negative. We all hope that this result can be trusted, but it's so hard to know - she does have some mild symptoms, and they are the same ones as the other staff member has had, the one who tested positive. Fortunately we hadn't looked after Frieda over the last few days, she was due to be with us today (but that, of course, had been cancelled).

So that's where we are. In territory completely different from where we were yesterday.