So, Wednesday it was actually two things (the Welsh hangout and the grass cutting), yesterday was the food shopping and today was chatting with my 97-year-old friend by phone.
Friday is the day I normally walk or drive up to see M, but of course being 97 she's self-isolating and seeing no one other than the carer who comes once a week to clean and cook and help with whatever M needs help with. M and I normally do a couple of puzzles in the i newspaper, but we've discovered we can do them by phone. I've started subscribing to the app version so I get the crossword every day without having to go out and physically by a paper.
We did a bit better this week because M organised herself a chair by the phone and I found a way of noting down the Zygolex answers so I could keep track of it. (The Independent app has the code word, sudokus and crossword, but not the Zygolex.)
Once the puzzles were done, we had a little chat about the state of the world. We'll keep doing this until it's safe to go back to normal, however long that takes.
