Guess what - yesterday I did 2 normal things - not 'new normal' - proper normal. Well proper normal wearing a mask and having taken a lateral flow test - but none the less proper.
First of all I went to the doctor for a blood test for my thyroid. Something I'd been planning in for months, but it's hard to miss time off work when you are the newby. I know that going for a blood test isn't exciting - but it was. I went to the surgery - sat in the waiting room. It all felt very... normal.
Then after work I had a hot date with husband. A friend came over to sit with son and dog, we fed them curry as a thank you. Then we went out - just the 2 of us - this may not sound the most exciting thing on earth - but actually it's only the sixth time we've been out without son in 13 years!
We went to see Romesh Ranganathan at the Dome in Brighton. You may be confused by the picture, which is clearly not Romesh, but whilst people filtered in and during the interval there was a fantastic DJ - playing non-cheesy music from 80's onwards (yes there is some non-cheesy music from the 80's).
Sadly none of his stuff is on Amazon or I'd have bought some - his name is Andy Purnell - keep an eye out. I was boogying away in my seat (very surreptitiously). After the interval when people had been drinking others were being more open about it (It was a Monday so I was on famine and couldn't drink).
Romesh was unsurprisingly brilliant. Though as he pointed out Monday is a rubbish night to go out to a comedy show. But the gig had been cancelled multiple times due to COVID so it was a case of fitting it in quickly before things shut down again (please no).
It was massively strange being in a theatre with hundreds of other people - literally the largest group of people I've seen since 2019. A little daunting because nobody was social distancing and nobody was wearing a mask.
To get in we'd had to prove we didn't have COVID and / or that we'd had our jabs and they took our temperatures as well. Hopefully this means that everybody was COVID free - but I doubt it. However at some point we simply have to start living normally. There is a difference between existing and living.
I wish we'd taken the bus as it was a nightmare getting home. Literally everybody had driven and the carpark by the theatre was rammed. We were on level 5 and had to sit in the car until levels 1-4 had cleared through and then wait for those on level 6 to let us out. Though we were entertained by 2 cars that had a crash in the bun fight on level 4. It took us the grand total of half an hour to get out of the carpark - madness.
Though we thought we'd been clever - when we arrived at the carpark there was a huge queue to pay at the machine. I said to husband - 'I bet the machine at the other entrance is clear as nobody that's not local will know about it'. So we walked to that entrance and sure enough there was nobody there. So we paid and smuggly walked back to car. In fact all it meant was that we said in the car waiting for 30 minutes instead of 10. Hey ho!
So there you go - a day with lots of normal things. Fingers crossed it's the start of a more exciting life!
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