Since last weekend things seem to have altered a lot.
The clocks changed, the lockdown rules changed, and even the weather obligingly changed (if only for a few days).
The clocks leaping forward isn't a particularly good thing, as we lose an hour's sleep, but the others were definitely changes for the better.
From Monday we were allowed to go out beyond our suburban estate, and visit somewhere else! I'd said a trip to Shipley would be my first outing, but I wasn't sure about school holiday dates and thought it might be busy, so we headed to Kedleston, where the National Trust are offering timed entry slots to keep the number of visitors down.
It was very strange travelling out of the set 'supermarket and back' route, to somewhere I haven't visited since autumn. Everywhere was familiar and strange at the same time - closer to returning to a much-visited holiday destination than just driving twenty minutes down the road. It makes me wonder how we'll all feel when we can travel further afield to places which have been out-of-bounds for this last year. The weather was in holiday mood too - the sun shining as brightly as summer but not too hot for walking.
I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that this is the beginning of the end of coronavirus, that with to dropping infections and increasing vaccinations we'll be able to follow the 'roadmap' taking us back to normal. For now, being able to meet family outside is a huge step forward, and I'm starting to cautiously look forward to a more-or-less normal summer.
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