8 o’clock

Some days, you can’t find the right words to say. So I will say only this:

How lovely it was, after days of hearing no one but ourselves, to stand outside underneath the night sky and hear our friends and neighbours send an overwhelming round of applause up to the stars for everyone on the front line.

“I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel” - Florence Nightingale