Today has been a day of good news.
First, as we listened to the five pm BBC news as we sipped our cups of tea, we heard the news that the MHRA have approved the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine. The cautious doctor in me just hopes that the foreshortening of the normal long timescales for safety trials won’t have resulted in any potentially serious side effects being missed; but overall, this is great news.
Second, our swabs from the additional testing came back clear, so we are allowed out of our room again. We celebrated with an early evening walk around the exercise yard.
Third, Lois and I successfully completed our level one food safety e-learning course. So we now know how to clean surfaces and store food safely at Breathing Space.
And finally, we have reached day seven – half-way through our quarantine. We are still enjoying each other’s company, not getting bored, working our way through our respective lists of things we wanted to do, appreciating some nice Marlborough valley wines (even if the wine list is limited to just one Pinot Noir, a Pinot Gris, a Chardonnay, and a Sauvignon Blanc), and feeling grateful to be alive, healthy and (relatively) free.
