[Leica] IMG: Difficult days

[Brian Reid]

So hard.

On 2020-12-16 1:30 pm, Douglas Barry wrote:
> I had to visit my mother in her nursing home for the first time in a
> couple of months, and unbelievably forgot my camera, so had to use my
> old iPhone 5S. I'll upgrade next year at some stage, and get a roughly
> similar sized phone with a better camera. Her nursing home is only
> four km away as the crow flies, but I don't have a flying car, despite
> all the promises of my childhood tv programmes. Very disappointing
> really. Traffic was very heavy, ominous really, as the closetted world
> emerges and goes shopping for Christmas. What frightening jump in
> plague figures will greet us in the early weeks of January?
> 
>  As for my soon to be 97 year old mother, she was in her usual
> vehement fettle, as I met her, not in her room as before, but in one
> of a row of garden sheds set up in the basement car park of her
> nursing home. We were separated by a full perspex screen that split
> the shed, and each of of us had microphone and speakers. The shed was
> tarted up like Santa's grotto and was a somewhat  incongruous
> situation as she complained long and very loudly about being
> imprisoned by this virus, expounding about how she was spending the
> tail end of her life like the Count of Monte Cristo, and most
> definitely wanted to go home. Sadly, that's impossible with the
> current plague. She's perfectly sharp intellectually, but, following a
> fall late last year, needs someone to keep an eye on her. We had
> someone calling in very day, but then the pandemic hit.
> 
> It's difficult being charged with the other member of our family
> diarchy with looking after the best interests of a rational adult.
> Anyway, she's not the Count or even the Countess of Monte Cristo, but
> maybe has a claim to be the Countess of Mounting Tinsel.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Xmas+2020+FF+Mum.jpg.html
> 
> Douglas