Summer in April

One of the things that makes the quarantaine bearable, is that the weather is at its best! For a couple of days already, we've been having sunny days with summer-like temperatures. And when you have the space (garden) to spend some time outside of the house, so much the better!

Yesterday, it was even so warm we could take out the recliners and pretend we were at the coast, sunning on our roof terrace...  We could even wear a bathing suit (although we lack the swimming pool). Only the view was somewhat different, plus the sounds. No trams passing by, or screaming seagulls, but the laughter of the neigbor's kids playing in their own garden and our other neighbors doing some work in their little patch of earth.

We don't have a garden anymore. Nor my sister or I are inclined to work in a garden and as there are only the two of us, it's not more expensive to buy fruit and vegetables at the grocer's. Now I only have to pluck an occasional bit of weed. But nevertheless we have the space to go outside and enjoy a bit of fresh air.

Today is Easter. The Easter clocks forgot about us... and for most kids it won't be as usual either. In the old days, our mother used to buy us some Easter eggs from the bakery in the street before we woke. But now neither our mother or the bakery is there. Mother died in 2008 and the bakery closed two years later. The first bakery is to be found in the town center right now.