Cheers!

It’s my Dad’s birthday today, his eightieth, and we had to cancel the big family do that was planned on Sunday past due to lockdown. Today he told us all to have a drink in his honour at half past five. We all took selfies and posted them on the Swan Chat group on WhatsApp. My selfie shows my neighbour, Christine and I both raising a glass, but observing social distancing.

I phoned him a bit later and he said he’d had a lovely day and the phone hadn’t stopped ringing. For his birthday tea he’d had mince and Jersey Royal potatoes, his favourites, and had popped a wee bottle of Moët and Chandon as it’s not every day he turns eighty.

I have included his selfie in extras, just so that I have it on record. None of us look particularly good in the selfies, but it marks the occasion in my journal.