There has been frost, snow, sunshine rain and mist today. I popped out on to the front garden to take this shot since I am now confined to barracks for 4 days. Whilst Dad took bedrest listening to Beethoven's fourth symphony, I worked through a list of tasks, one of them simply being 'take a photgraph'. I have no editting abiity here otherwise I might have tried to increase the contrast .
Only read on if you are insanely bored!
Confined to baracks I hear you ask? I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Concerned, owing to unavoidably spending Christmas day with my father in law who has dementia and not a clue about 'hands, face, space', I asked the Care Company who provide 50% of Dad's care if there was any way they could acquire a test for me before my turn on the rota started. They kindly agreed to send out a test kit but unfortunately it didn't arrive by the Wednesday I would need to be tested in order to allow the 72 hours max to get test results. So after much agonising and soul searching, I booked one - pretending to have symptoms. Whilst in a very long queue for over an hour in the freezing cold, I noticed that I was the only one coughing (due to the cold and my weak chest - it is my normal) - no one else looked at all ill. I thought it a bit ironic at the time, but when I reached the front of the queue at the entrance to the tent there was a track and trace QR code. So being a compliant and curious sort of person and beause I dont go anywhere much else, in my excitement at being out, I scanned the QR code. Doh! 72 hours later, still no results so I had to go to Dads anyway without waiting. After 5 days I got my negative result. Phew! Imagine my surprise when I opened a text this morning saying that track and trace had detected that I had been in contact with someone testing positive and was now required to isolate for four days (the remainder of the ten days isolation period). I haven't been anywhere else, so the contact was clearly someone at the COVID test station. Well there is our world beating system for you. I guess, having used the QR code at the hospital yesterday with Dad, I will be told to isolate again in about a week's time.
Seriously though, this whole business of tracking down the virus and stopping it spreading is an absolute logistical nightmare.
I have a degree of sympathy for those trying to run the systems.
Love the photo's sense of mystery and gloom. Perhaps that's just my mood from the events of our day. Glad you are well after all the tests, and hope the quarantine period that's left brings zero surprises!
Lovely layers and moody mist. I agree with the tracking nightmare, I had a message just after Christmas saying I had been near somebody who had tested positive, but I didn't need to isolate unless I got a further message, which I didn't. Very confusing!
Love the colours and light.
And yes, this whole crisis makes us so frustrated! And it's hard to still have some trust in the system. But there's nothing else we can do, so we follow the rules. Keep on positive thinking.
Beautiful moody shot. I'm sorry I can't find comforting words but they don't mean anything here anymore. In these difficult moments we take hands and this touch helps.
It is such a performance these days getting tested isn't it. Hope your latest test comes back negative too.
And yes, this whole crisis makes us so frustrated! And it's hard to still have some trust in the system. But there's nothing else we can do, so we follow the rules. Keep on positive thinking.