Streetlights

Ah, such sadness. It has not been my custom to put on a midwinter lightshow... In pre-LED days I was unwilling to use the energy. Now, with low power high lumens LEDs that's not such a thing. Even so, I fought long and hard to turn off, after midnight, the street lights in our village. Eventually, LED streetlights made that, too, a legacy now gone.

I was looking forward to having Ivy gasp in amazement, though. I spent a lot of time on a wobbly ladder for that gasp. But first her nursery was hit with covid infections - although happily she herself wasn't. Then the news about the ability of the new Omicron variant to spread... and in our village we are currently around 808/100,000, with the national average being 520.

There is partial data to indicate that one in four kidney transplant patients die from covid infection. They are an especially vulnerable section of the public, and of course Janet has had her kidney since March 2017. We are doing what we have to do, no matter how much we miss our granddaughter. If only the sodding government would do the same.

Hey, you can see us from space...!