Having sent both the eulogy and slide show I made for Pauline's funeral yesterday, I was dismayed to receive a message from Nicky to say that the Funeral Directors were having problems getting them uploaded to the Crem website. First the link to these on YouTube couldn't be used for reasons undisclosed, then I uploaded them to Google Drive and sent a file sharing link. I discovered that the FD needed to forward these to a third party Wesley Media which runs the audio visual services for the Council at the Crem. I had make file sharing specific to recipients rather than universal. It was easy enough to fix, but annoying that I wasn't informed when I sent the links yesterday afternoon, rather than four hours before the cut off deadline.
My afternoon walk today was around the streets of the parish, calling at Tesco's to buy a phone top up for Clare. Hand sanitising was available just outside the door, under the eye of the security guard who was letting one shopper out for each that left. It wasn't busy enough for there to be a queue. The manual and auto checkout tills are equipped with separating screens in Tesco brand blue and white colours. The staff were cheery and helpful, everyone is making an effort to behave positively in the face of the crisis. Few in the store were wearing masks. Compulsory or discretionary? It's unclear.
Today is Owain's forty second birthday. Kath organised a family gathering on Zoom in the evening so that we could sing him Happy Birthday. He'd spent the day with friends walking up the banks of the Severn estuary in the sun. On Saturday, which is Kath and Anto's 26th wedding anniversary, they are going down to Bristol to meet with Owain in St George's Park, with a cake baked by Rhiannon and a bottle of Cava to toast his health - all socially distanced of course. We can't join them, as there are still movement restrictions on us here in Wales. Such a pity, but we can talk with them in a WhatsApp conference call when they arrive, and cheer them on. The best we can do this year. It's so good to know they are all fit and well.
My afternoon walk today was around the streets of the parish, calling at Tesco's to buy a phone top up for Clare. Hand sanitising was available just outside the door, under the eye of the security guard who was letting one shopper out for each that left. It wasn't busy enough for there to be a queue. The manual and auto checkout tills are equipped with separating screens in Tesco brand blue and white colours. The staff were cheery and helpful, everyone is making an effort to behave positively in the face of the crisis. Few in the store were wearing masks. Compulsory or discretionary? It's unclear.
Today is Owain's forty second birthday. Kath organised a family gathering on Zoom in the evening so that we could sing him Happy Birthday. He'd spent the day with friends walking up the banks of the Severn estuary in the sun. On Saturday, which is Kath and Anto's 26th wedding anniversary, they are going down to Bristol to meet with Owain in St George's Park, with a cake baked by Rhiannon and a bottle of Cava to toast his health - all socially distanced of course. We can't join them, as there are still movement restrictions on us here in Wales. Such a pity, but we can talk with them in a WhatsApp conference call when they arrive, and cheer them on. The best we can do this year. It's so good to know they are all fit and well.
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