This afternoon, I suddenly heard music on the hill and, looking out the window, I saw a crowd of socially-distanced parents dotted around the car-park. School teachers had lined the pathway going up the hill to the school, and one of them had set a small stereo playing music. The idea was that the outgoing class would descend to their parents, and receive a farewell from their teachers along the way. A very nice idea, I thought, after a final day at school, which they had spent marking the end of their time at primary school.
And I am sorry that I missed them almost entirely. For, having arrived late in the year already, I was only able to see most of them very briefly on one or two occasions, because of the present public health crisis and the associated safekeeping measures.
May everything return to a semblance of normality soon.
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