New Normal

It was a huge relief to have the first public services for nearly four months over with! There will need to be some refinements carried out but my nightmare vision of elderly churchgoers bumping into one another like dodgems and sending clouds of viral load spiralling into the air to infect everyone around them did not happen at all. Everyone was (as I could have predicted) sensible, restrained and patient. We had music but of course no singing; a register system on the door; and communion in one kind, everything done very carefully, and, so far as we could, swiftly so there was no need to hang around. I got in from saying goodbye to everyone to find that the self-identified cleaning team had already dealt with the seating and surfaces. It's hard to predict whether time will lead to familiarity and confidence, or boredom.