Today is my Mum’s birthday so the challenge was how to celebrate at a distance. The wider family chat group are sharing favourite memories and her phone I suspect, will be extra busy today. She delighted in a momentous trip out in her car -to get her flu jab! She felt like it was a birthday gift being out with actual people -especially when she discovered the woman at the doctor’s recpetion desk was a fellow parishioner :)

But most of all she loved seeing her family from a distance, each in our bubbles, as we sang happy birthday before retreating back to our own bubbles, leaving balloons on her letterbox. I am starting to see with new eyes the importance of small things done with love. A teddy bear in the window; chalk messages on the pavement, phone calls and zoom connections…. whatever way you choose, may your day include a small thing done with love.