Hello my friends, yes I hear you this does feel never-ending.

@rechu that is so frustrating that you have this issue booking leave. Hoping that will change and you can somehow get the break you want and deserve. I too treasure memories of our last one night break in January 2020, before covid hit England, we saw two Chinese people wearing face masks at the train station which seemed so ridiculous at the time!

We've had 2 covid cases at work, not connected as their shifts didn't coincide, one of them doesn't know where she caught it. Thankfully both double vaccinated and only mild symptoms. I worked quite closely with one of them and have been taking lateral flow tests regularly since. So far I'm clear. Lots of cold viruses going around too but so far I've evaded them too thankfully.

Cases still high here. I wonder if because vaccinated people who get infected often have only cold like symptoms they may be inadvertently spreading covid?

Weirdly I don't even feel anxious these days but I think I've got so used to this odd pandemic it feels like normal now.