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Allison Moore

Allison was being funny and honest with her postcards. She compared her club mates to sharks and contemplated a paddling pool on a sloped garden.

'Just keep swimming!'

Just keep swimming! That is what I was trying to do all winter. I had joined a club and had went to extra sessions. Also, I did realise that I was not going to the Olympics, due to being overweight and over 60. In the Spring I signed up for 'swim for a mile' challenge, I paid for more coaching, I hoped to lose some weight and get a faster time. Then along came Coronavirus...as I do very little other exercise except for lifting large glasses of wine, I have really missed swimming, during lockdown. I even contemplated buying a large paddling pool but that was no good as my garden is on a steep slope. I'm hoping the swimming pools open again soon! The sharks represent some of my very competitive club mates.

'I don't know when I will be reunited with my shoes again and I really miss them...'

This is a story about loss and separation in the middle of a pandemic. We were in Portugal until just before lockdown and were due to return in the middle of April. I therefore left my summer clothes including my flip flops in our apartment. I don't know when I will be reunited with my shoes again and I really miss them.

'I'm going to stock up on Listerine and start gargling...'

Saturday evening post, November 26th, 1949. I saw this and thought I should keep it in mind incase I test positive for COVID 19. Since lockdown I have had a wide variety of ailments, real or otherwise, coughs, sore throat, pain in jaw and various other pains and aches. None of them were serious or long lasting, but every time something developed I kept panicking and thinking 'Have I got it?', 'Did I get too close to that delivery driver or forget to sanitise all the shopping?' Instead I'm going to stock up on Listerine and start gargling!

'I have spent whole of lockdown acting as a doorperson for one very spoiled cat, opening and closing the door at his request...'

Trouble. We returned from holiday just before lockdown and our cat was very glad to see us. So pleased that he brought a live mouse into the bedroom, let it go, then lost all interest in it. After evacuating the bedroom and sleeping on the sofa, I was dispatched to the local hardware store to buy traps. The traps were set and it was back to the sofa for another night. Next morning traps were inspected and found empty but then I heard a noise. It was a really pretty, cute mouse running across the floor. The traps were removed. Rest of the day was spent making humane traps from instructions on Youtube. Eventually mouse went into trap and was released into garden and we returned to our own bed. Outcome was that we stopped leaving a window open for Trouble the cat to get in and out and I have spent whole of lockdown acting as a doorperson for one very spoiled cat, opening and closing the door at his request.

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