Star Wars ya say!!

Adam looked out of the window... "if you look up when it snows it looks like you're moving"! Adam was a bit of a geek and then turned and said "It could also look like the credits out of Star Wars"!

Kaye joined her husband in this child like yet mesmerizing act. Both stood there for awhile in awe of how the mind can trick you into thinking you're moving!

Taking pictures on their phones and trying to be 'arty' with the yellow hue of the street light.

Smiling at people below slip - sliding to their destinations.

Kaye worked in a care home and had done for nearly coming up to a year. She loved her job and all the little old people as she'd put it. They loved also looking out of the their respective windows and reminiscing about times gone by. The snowball fights and the igloos they'd attempted!! Stories of roasted chestnuts and cold little fingers in woollen mittens. All of the residents had some little nuggets of their youth some a bit sketchy on details... always made for some good entertainment either way.

The year was 2020... bang in the middle of the pandemic of Covid-19. As was procedure for Kaye; she and her colleagues were tested weekly. So far so good, not a single case. She was grateful for this, as some of her little old people were too venerable. They were the only residential home not to have it within a thirty mile radius. She, like all of the girls was super proud of this. All the staff were all really stringent: home/work. Other halves to do the weekly shop; step out of clothes - straight into the washing machine and themselves into the shower.

Then disaster struck: the dreaded text from the NHS saying she'd been confirmed as positive. How was this even possible!? She was classed as asymptomatic - so a carrier of the virus with no symptoms. Her uncle down south had it over Christmas time - full blown: no sense of smell or taste, dry hacking cough etc.

So ten long days of isolation... and to be fair with the weather the way it was... she was alright with that!!

The snow fell during the day like a blanket and then froze solid at night. Supplies were being dropped off at the door by family and friends. All looking adorable with their nitrile gloves, face mask and make shift aprons. Thankfully neither Adam nor Kaye had any symptoms so it was a case of just waiting it out!

Day five into the isolation Kaye was tested again and this time it was negative. Hooray!! The home in which she worked thought that the cases were false positives. They'd been having their mandatory test every week from the beginning, so March time. The last testing time an outside agency got involved... it was their results that had 'generated' these positive outcomes. Managements thinking was if ours were negative and none of the residents had been effected by this god awful crap this must be the case. However, as it had been recorded as a positive so the isolation was in fact law... urgh!

Adam was itching to get out and make snow angels! "It definitely looks like it's getting thicker baby"... "I'm excited to get out in it"!

Oh boy, didn't those ten day drag. Everyday felt like the week in between Christmas and New Year: you didn't know what day it was, you grazed, napped and grazed again!! Kaye hated having no struct to her day.

She'd start everyday with the best of intentions: fresh coffee and toast. Sit in their brightly lit dining room, checking her emails on her laptop whilst keeping a watchful eye on the outdoors. The outdoors she to craved to be in amongst!! The snow did look beautiful it was very romantic and before the cars had been over it and their tyres had turned the sparkling snow to sludge. The rest of her day was spent watching mindless crap on the telly and sometimes a video call with a friend to break up the monotony of the day. It was the over eating she couldn't handle; so instead she took to cleaning by means of a distraction. It seemed to work and she did love the smell of freshly laundered clothes and bleach!

Adam throughout this whole ten days was happy to sit up in his man cave and game with his mates. Kaye didn't mind. If he'd offered to help clean it would only be wrong as he didn't do it her way and he knew it!! Happy wife, happy life was his motto.

The family cat, Moglet was lazing around - as cats do. She'd stretch, yawn, stand up - circle and reposition herself. This morning she was adamant on sitting on top of Kaye's laptop whilst she read her morning emails and checked the news.

She finally found a warm spot behind Kaye's laptop, nestled into the back of the screen. No care given to the outside world at all. Moving only every now again to request fuss or check that her human was still there... separation anxiety Kaye thought!

Day ten and both Adam and Kaye were like children, rushing to put scarves and gloves on. "Let's go to the lake and see if we can skate on it" Adam said in hurried voice. As they walked up the hill the cold air filing their lungs... wow it felt good to be outside. Cheeks flushed with the bite of the cold - delicious.

The lake looked beautiful, heavy snow resting on the trees making them bow ever so slightly under the weight. Ducks and other bird life huddling together to keep warm. Just the sounds and smells of outdoors were a welcomed relief. The happy families and other couples skating about on the lake. Adam rushed to the lake side and tentatively put a booted foot on to the ice and turned and smiled at Kaye.