Hello everybody, it's Elaine C. Smith here
I hope you're all keeping as well as you can during this dark and miserable time.
A pandemic, eh? Who would ever have thought of that?
Well, a few brainy folk did, actually.
I certainly didn't!
Anyway, this is just a wee quick message from me,
to try and remind us all,
to behave ourselves this weekend. It's a message to myself as well, by the way.
To try and listen to, and follow, the guidelines, right?
I know I speak for us all when I say,
the last thing we want
is for us all to be back at the start of all this in March,
where we first went into lockdown!
Remember? When we all thought this would be over in a few weeks,
and everything would be back to normal, eh!?
The play I was in at the time actually closed on the 14th March,
and between you and me I haven't done a hands turn since.
Mind you, my house is spotless, by the way.
And I've read hundreds of books as well!
Em, but, the novelty of it all, is wearing off, you know?
Do you remember that?
Right at the start of lockdown? When we got excited about the Zoom quizzes?
Well, they caused a few barnies in our family, I can tell you.
I mean, a half point's a half point, in my opinion!
But, remember pushing the coffee table to the side of living room
so I could do my Zumba classes thinking it was really funny!
I never got into the baking thing though.
What was that?
I mean, folk that had never even heard of sour dough bread
were suddenly making it as if their life depended on it!
And I will not miss those rushes round the supermarket,
you know, trying to get stuff.
All that, with folk buying hundreds of toilet roll.
What was that about?
I kept thinking,
do they all know something about this virus that I don't?
If you keep your backside clean, then you're not going to get the virus?
It was like this secret thing that was going on, that I didn't know
Anyway, on a much more serious note,
I know we all miss our families. I do.
I can't see my daughter unless I meet her in a coffee shop or a restaurant.
We miss all our friends.
We miss doing all the normal things.
You know, the socialising and the meeting up,
the dinners, the lunches,
meeting your pals, I can't see my sisters.
You know, the pubs, the clubs.
Well, I never actually, I'm not missing that. because it's not somewhere I went.
I mean, asking somebody my age to sit in the house and watch Netflix
is not exactly the worse thing, you know?
But I miss the theatre!
My work!
Pantos!
I know everybody misses things like that.
It's a really, really tough time for us all.
And, the pandemic is dragging on.
And as it drags on, it gets easier to fall back into old ways. I know I have.
You know as things loosened
I would do things like walk into a shop and realise I hadn't my mask on,
or, walk right by the sanitiser and have to go back and sanitise my hands.
I'd stand too close to people when I was talking to them,
and I'd want to hug people I hadn't seen, you know?
And with a drink in us as well,
I mean, things just go out the window.
And I had to keep reminder myself,
of what this meant, that things weren't over.
And sadly,
the virus never forgot.
COVID-19. Still here.
And sadly, terribly, cases are rising again.
And people are dying.
We have to act as collectively as we can,
to minimise the spread of this horrible, horrible virus.
We are all in this together.
I mean, every single person
in Glasgow, Greater Glasgow, and Clyde,
and Scotland, the UK, and globally.
So please, stick to the guidelines, eh?
Six people outdoors, you know, from only two families,
wear a mask when you're out,
socially distance,
wash your hands.
And I'll tell you, I always thought I was clean person
and I knew how to wash my hands.
I'm clean now, and I know how to wash my hands.
Stay out of other people's houses, no matter how tempting it is.
And, for the love of god,
don't have, and don't go to a party.
Don't let your friends go to a party.
Don't even talk about parties.
So, on that happy note,
make sure you try and enjoy the weekend!
Never mind, it'll be the small things that we remember.
And while it's hard now, this is not going to be forever.
And as my alter-ego Christine from 'Two Doors Down' would say...
"Keep the bleeping heid, will ye!?".
Right, watch, see look, eh?
I'm sanitising my hands. There we are.
All the best. Oop! Can't get my mask on there.
Have a lovely weekend. There we go.
Cheers!