I have to admit: there is something weird (not to say unsettling) about leaving your house after being hidden inside for four full days in a row (isn’t this unprovoked alliteration lovely? Maybe not, but I’m feeling like it is, just for a moment). The front garden is in full bloom: tiny wild tulips, pinkish pale and raggedy, are wiggling next to clear white giants, lily-flowered ones. I would definitely take a pic the other day, but not now: we should “do important things” first. Which simply means that we need to do some basic shopping: the whole process more and more feels like an ordeal.
The streets are empty, but now we have accepted it as a part of a new routine—nothing unusual, just the normal state of things. Of course, it’s not: the contrast between the sunshine, marvellous (although a bit chilly) weather and emptiness is striking and mind-boggling. But never mind.