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Unlucky person? I´d say yes

One of my friends seems to have a monopoly on bad luck. Two weeks ago she met her ex for the first time in weeks, for a not so fancy dinner in a cheap restaurant he had arranged to meet up with his family. Only two days later he got tested Covid-positive. My friend barracked herself in her flat for one week, did not meet up with her grandchildren and her daughters, things she loves very much, because she does not have much contact with her neighbours. One of her daughters did the groceries for her and put it in front of the door. After one week she was sure that she had not gotten the plague and continued her life as usual- trips to her daughters, helping out other friends. On Wednesday her old employer asked her, if she´d help him to put away groceries his son had bought but had only put it into his kitchen then left. He himself had been out of hospital the same day, after four weeks of being confined to bed. Now guess who got tested positive on Thursday- her former employer. Don´t they do Covid tests on patients and staff in the hospital? Apparently this rule only applies to visitors! So my poor friend is back to self-quarantine for the next week, at a time where she should have attended a funeral of some relative. She is livid. Her daughters are livid- those two mostly because her mother has too much readiness to help in her, which now means that she won´t be able to chaperon their children. That rings a bell in me, though DiL number two did not even mind that hubby, aunt Lil and I had been in contact with Covid-positive people like number three and family...
It was another fine, too warm, day today. I wasn´t out much, because my sneezing has intensified, apparently a few more trees have begun to bloom. Rain, where are you, when you are needed? Would have been nice if you washed all those annoying pollen out of the air! Waiting for summer again, when we do not want to see you so often?
Next week I will meet another friend, together we will do a trip to Germany, to my favourite garden centre. I need new crates- the old ones lost their bottoms- to plant chillies and tomatos, and maybe beans for shading the conservatory. Works wonders when the sun is high and there are no sun-blinds on the windows! Crates and pool liner to line the crates it will be, afterwards a trip to a huge store to buy some Easter presents. One has to take advantage of the few days Cassian will not be in town...