Mum’s care home has been in an outbreak/lockdown since before Xmas, though I can visit as I am her ECG. Today the manager let me take mum out for a walk as a special ‘treat’, first time she has been outside for 4 weeks - and WHAT a difference it made, she was so pleased and chatty and you would think the local very small park had been Kew Gardens. It didn’t bring her back to ‘reality’ or anything like that, and my long-dead father was as usual getting a lot of stick for not having been in touch, but it did make me think we need to hang on to the good times however basic they are!