Day 22 - I’ve been robbed!

Today started with an 8am live core training session with Pete on Zoom. Pete is the trainer that I usually went to in Dublin, so I was delighted to be able to do his session. Lisa and John also tuned in from London! However, about five minutes into the class, I spotted Damo outside the front window, heading off to work. He was staring at my car door, which appeared to be slightly ajar!

I ran out to close the door and, on further inspection after the fitness class, I discovered that I had left my car unlocked the previous night and that someone had come along in the middle of the night and taken the electronic gate openers for both Mum’s and Crannagh’s gates from the car!

I was lucky that nothing of value had been in the car, and I hope they got a fright seeing the face mask and covid testing instructions etc that I had left on my front car seat after getting tested last week! It was probably a good reminder that crime is still happening, even during this global pandemic.

After discovering all of this, I went for a walk to the local postbox to post the free postcard that we got from An Post this week. Every household in the country has been given a few of these, and I sent my first one to Mum and Anna at home. On my way home, I found the gate openers that had been stolen from my car, in the middle of the road, about 50m from the house, in the direction of Knocknaheeny. They had been prized open, but nothing had been removed from them. I wonder what they were looking for?

When I got home, I did an Oti Mabuse dance class to the Tina Turner song, Proud Mary. It was impossible to dance to this without a smile on my face! Then I did a little bit of work, napped for a while, chatted to Peter’s family via Zoom and watched the Late Late Show, in which the crew of the Aer Lingus plane that flew to Beijing this week, to collect personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, were interviewed.

I’m not sleeping overly well these days. I’m usually waking up very early in the morning and not getting back to sleep. Damo said he’s been experiencing the same. I think my subconscious must be going into overdrive at night, trying to process everything about this new world that we’re living in. There’s a lot of news to take in every day, so this probably isn’t surprising!Les mer