Livre d'Or

Sorry about how hard it all is for you. I wish the UK was half-competent in dealing with the pandemic, as it is here (where even with a rise in cases, the daily number was a third of what it reached in the UK in the last few days, and even less per capita).

I attended shul outside, socially distanced, and with masks when people wanted to sing, and with services radically abridged. This is how it should have been for you/everyone.

I was leyning mincha on YK, and got roped into also leading the mincha Torah service and doing hagbahah and gelilah, on the grounds of reducing the number of people coming up to the bimah. (The olim kept a two metre distance from the omud, as did the gabbai and metaken/sgan/junior gabbai.)

But I also got the stay-at-home experience, because the play room at shul is closed, which means only one of aviva_m and me can ever attend shul at once, whilst the other one stays at home to look after Rafi, and daven beyochid.