Confinement Jour 7 : Joyeux Noël

[castalie]

Ok, remember when I mentioned in my last post how tv was doing its best to keep us entertained and to keep people's morale up? Get this (and I'm specifically thinking of you, turps33, here) some French channels have started airing Christmas movies again. This is not a drill. Someone, somewhere, decided that we needed some pick-me-up programs and someone else answered right away "What about Christmas movies again?!" Cheesy, sweet, feel-good, simple, predictable, reliable, Christmas stories. Because of Coronavirus and Confinement and Shit. I don't even know how to feel about this, guys. (I couldn't even watch today's film because work is still super busy! I mean...). But, yeah. Christmas movies. At the end of March.

Then again, I'm all for silly things to amuse us these days. Case in point Sunday afternoon. So Cookie and I are dreaming of visiting Highclere Castle (or, you know, Downton Abbey) and what we wanted to do on our next trip to the UK together was to plan a little outing there in order to spend some time in the premises, visit the castle and, if we manage to grab tickets because they seem to go fast, to have afternoon tea there (I mean, I know it's not inside the castle - or I don't think it is - but still). And since we don't know when this will be possible now, we thought, you know what? If we can't go to Highclere Castle, we'll have Highclere Castle come to us! So I made scones from scratch (my first time and they were pretty good, if I may say so) and then we treated ourselves to a little picnic in the park-but-actually-in-our-living-room. We had a blast ;)







I know, I know. "This is what you do at Day 6? I'd rather not think about Day 45". Well. We won't know until we get there, won't we? (We'll actually know tomorrow if Confinement is extended - or, for how long it will turn out to be extended, because at this point we're all pretty sure it will be, so. #NoSpoilersThough)

PS: don't think we don't take the situation seriously, btw. We all do. It's just, we're living through a pretty anxiety inducing time and being confined at home with pretty stricts rules not to go outside makes life a bit surreal (I'm starting to really hate the sound of the police delivering orders to stay home as well as recommandations against the virus from a loudspeaker in the street every other day). One has to try and make things easier, that's all, you know?

Comments

[anatsuno]

oh wow, vous avez des patrouilles de flics avec des mégaphones ? Ben dis donc, je regrette pas d'habiter dans un village au trouduc de la province. ça doit être franchement pénible !

[castalie]

Alors, ce n'est pas tous les jours, apparemment ; on n'en a pas eu hier, ce matin, oui. C'est un message (une voix féminine enregistrée, pas les policiers qui nous parlent directement) qui nous rappelle qu'il faut rester chez nous, d'utiliser les gestes barrières et ça se termine par "Ensemble, soyons responsables et solidaires". Techniquement, j'approuve ce message et (malheureusement) il y a encore trop de personnes qui ont besoin qu'on leur rappelle l'importance du confinement etc. mais à chaque fois que je l'entends, ça me fait bizarre et ça finit par me déranger (dans le sens, me met à l'aise).

[turps]

OMG! I hope our tv channels do the same, that would be fantastic and would cheer me up for sure. You'll have seen but we've gone into lockdown too. Apparently not as strict as yours -- yet, but I suspect that could happen if people still don't listen.

I love your tea party, and the detail of the castle behind you is perfect.

PS: don't think we don't take the situation seriously, btw

I totally get that. Suspecting a lockdown was coming I was out with James at Costco yesterday stocking up on cat litter. We were joking because everyone was being great with social isolating, and at one point there was a line of people pushing the huge trolleys, all perfectly spaced out and it did look funny, even though the reason is both sensible but also terrifying.

[castalie]

I hope they do! I mean, on the one hand it's crazy that we're at the point when we apparently need to have Christmas movies back on our tv, on the other... hell yeah, keep them coming! (Although I still have too much work to be able to stop and watch them lol Soon, maybe? And there's always the replay, mind).

I suspect that could happen if people still don't listen.

Well, if the British are as "good" as the French at following rules, you can expect the rules to get stricter...

You have to find reasons to laugh at the situation because otherwise, it gets too scary. I have three cases of Covid in the family, two pretty mild and one pretty serious, if you can't find ways to "have fun" and find the positive in the current situation, you'll end up spending your every moment in a state of fear and stress. That is just not sustainable...

[turps]

I have three cases of Covid in the family, two pretty mild and one pretty serious, if you can't find ways to "have fun" and find the positive in the current situation, you'll end up spending your every moment in a state of fear and stress. That is just not sustainable...

I'm sorry to hear that. It all feels very real now, with so many people getting sick. Thankfully I don't know any personally, and I hope it stays that way. And the people you know who have it all recover well and fast.