Who Wants to Hear Something Lovely? :)

I interact with few people normally, and am happily amazed with how helpful and generous of spirit people are now. People are so keen to help out those who are vulnerable, I have people who I don't know but who know how things are with Julia, asking me if there's anything they can do to help; anything they can get for me when they are out.

When I take the dogs out, folk will stop and say hello, keeping the correct distance, and when they walk on will generally say, "Keep safe".

I honestly think that covid-19 might end up a good thing. While governments are using it as an excuse for even more social control - I'll be interested to see if we ever get our public spaces/right to walk in the countryside and move about back; still the ordinary person, your neighbour who you would generally walk past without even nodding perhaps, is now the person who you can count on.

I do think that society is getting kinder and more gentle.

Lets face it,all the Government has done is throw money at the problem.
We will get through it not because of them but inspite of them thanks to millions of people in the NHS, the supply, service, building and transport,police and military and more and an army of unseen kind hearted volunteers.
Hopefully it will make people more community minded and change attitudes to consuming local produce and not stuff vulnerable to a fragile supply chain from thousands of miles away.

Maybe it might even heal some of the spite and nastiness that Brexit raked up.

Lovely gesture from your helper.

It brought a tear to my eye!  Such a lovely gesture x

Fingers crossed!  One of the things I've wondered about over the years is how things have changed from communities helping each other out to the expectation being social services will do it and of course, often they don't.  I know when I was a kid there were lots of informal care arrangements with mums watching each other's kids and doing shopping for the old boy up the road, the younger blokes fixing cars for the single parents and those sorts of things.  Lots of favours back and forth.  There seems to be more of an expectation that the authorities sort things out now and I think various regulations put an end to informal arrangements, especially with things like looking after kids.  There needs to be a balance, I think, between that local authority safety net and them putting their noses in too much.  Be nice if people realise they can do things without being told to a bit more now.

Aaaah an Easter egg robber, you are lol