“Stay resolute and cheerful …”
by EQI Member: Heather B.
Greetings to all our EQI members.
It’s hard not to become even a tiny bit depressed this morning (Saturday) with the news that we have more than 20 new cases of COVID-19 in Victoria. The radio announcer said, after giving us those figures, we have to stay resolute and cheerful. Resolute in that we are following instructions to stay home and, I suppose, cheerful that we haven’t got over 300 cases. It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Life at the moment is so full of uncertainty. We make a plan or even plans and then we have to scrap them. It is difficult to see where we will be in September let alone later in the year. If we go back to this time last year, which we thought would be the only Covid year, in spite of the high numbers, we could still look and think a little bit into the future. Now that appears to be shrinking fast.
As soon as restrictions ease we have to get out there and do things, things that we have been thinking of doing all the time we have been in lockdown. A good example is: I was to meet a friend for a coffee on Friday. Fortunately, she changed the day and we agreed to meet on Thursday. The first thing she said to me was that she had heard a rumour that we were going into lockdown again. In the cafe, the staff expressed the same opinion and so did the jeweller we went to. He said he’d had to recently pay four weeks rent for his shop with no income and no business during that time. Later that evening I was wondering what the cafe would do with all the glorious cakes we’d seen in the shop. Unlike the jeweller, the cafe could still remain open for takeaway.
We are lucky in that we have a hobby (or an obsession!) we can become engrossed in. I’m really looking forward to seeing all the quilts made during lockdowns 5 and 6 and thank those who have sent in photos of what you have been doing.
With a little bit of luck and a lot of good management, we may be able to meet on the 18th and the 25th of this month. July was such a washout, may August be a bit better.
‘Blessed are the Quilters for they shall be called Piecemakers’.
Stay safe, stay well, stay warm, try to stay cheerful till we can meet again.
Heather.
President.
