that there’s light at the end of the tunnel!
As I’m writing this, the news is reporting the first effective coronavirus vaccine…..”a great day for science and humanity” according to the developers Pfizer and BioNTech.
What great news!
I know we will have to continue to be careful and cautious for a long time yet but now there’s reason to be optimistic. How good is that! Let’s look forward to the possibility of meeting face to face again in 2021 🙂
In the meantime, we continue to meet by Zoom and our November speaker is Susan Howard on “The History of Handbags”.
The dictionary definition of a handbag is “a small bag used by a woman to carry everyday personal items”. Well, they obviously haven’t seen mine! Who else carries an oversize bag and when on earth did that start to be a “thing”?
Look through my bag and you’ll find shopping bags, shopping lists, plastic bags, make up, sanitiser, rubber gloves (!), paper tissues, wipes, diary, notebook, pens, umbrella, and phone (of course)….. Not to mention the out of date chewing gum.
It can’t just be me – go on, have a sort through yours and see what you find! Maybe listening to Susan will inspire us to go back to basics.
Or is simply that our definition of what constitutes an “every day personal item” has changed? After all, a year ago, who would have thought we’d be carrying hand sanitiser??
Take care and keep smiling.
Liz
Gosforth Central Women's Institute 