October Already!

 Not much longer till Christmas.

The days just keep running into and alongside each other culminating in today, the first of October. Who would have thought that time could go so fast? Just the other day it was the beginning of March, June or August. 

Bob asked me to pick up his eye-drops at our local doctor's and with the new corona measures, it has become rather a planned task and no more a spur of the moment  drop in.  Following their new rules ( big segment in our local newspaper about how and even when to visit our local doc ) I phoned ahead for an appointment or rather an appointed time to collect the eye-drops but was told I could come whenever it suited me. Great.

As luck would have it the road outside our driveway is being picked apart to put a new pipe in it.  Thankfully the young men working outside our driveway were kind enough to let me know that it would be better if I moved the car outside. Finding a parking spot in our road was quite daunting as it is plastered with work vehicles and other neighbour's cars. But, I managed eventually.

Arriving at the doctor's was rather strange. Normally it is a hive of social activity with oodles of locals sitting about complaining about hips, knees, daughter-in-laws and the odd politician whilst waiting to see the doctor. Social nearness wouldn't be a misnomer, whereas now, today, it was devoid of people except a lone person sitting in the waiting room and another standing outside awaiting her turn. Yikes, social distancing in force.

Hard to catch up on the juicy bits of village news that only a sojourn at the doctor's waiting room could bring about. Where was everyone and why are so few people sick nowadays?  Well, it is nice that not many are and perhaps, all joking aside, the whole periphanalia of a doctor's visit is even more important and helps more in getting well than the actual trip into the rooms. 

Anyway, October is here and November is near. Life is good and there to be lived...so let's live it.