You were wearing a cloth over your mouth for months this year. But nobody else in the shops and on the underground was wearing them and you looked like a freak, so you stopped.
Last April you would change sidewalks if someone was walking towards you. Last week you were huddled around your mates in the pub, spluttering into each other’s faces about the huge Xmas party you’ll be at next week.
The sanitizer pumps in shops and pubs ran dry months ago so when you used them you would just get alcohol-scented air.
So you thought it was game over for Covid, right? Well, the looming threat of another cancelled and ruined Xmas suggests otherwise. Because a new strain of Covid, Omicron, has evolved to transmit via Xbox-Live so thousands of Battlefield-playing teenagers have already given it to their whole school and their parents. It is inescapable and deadly!
Our grandparents were called to war, so I guess we can sit on our couch at home again for a few weeks. It isn’t as bad as having to go to war no? And we can use our at home time to work on a new Omicron Vaccine: 2 parts rum, 1 part creme de menthe, 2 parts …
But this year also, we were stuck on this island without being able to go diving in our beloved Coral Triangle. So we went on these fantastic staycations in the UK. We made mini-trips to beautiful destinations like the Brecon Beacons, the Cotswolds, Jurassic Coast, the Lake District, Northumberland, Pembrokeshire, Suffolk, Wye Valley and several trips to the New Forest.
And it’s during one of these trips, in one of our favorite places where we spent countless hours already, the New Forest, that we found these magical, glowing mushrooms! On this dark and gloomy autumn evening, just before packing up and going to the pub where a warm open fire and a pint of Ale was waiting for us.
Just what we needed to wish you all a fantastic holiday and a year 2022 free of C-19 travel restrictions, q-tips up your noses and quarantines!
A bit of good old fashioned magic is perhaps all that is missing in our lives right now.
Sonja, René and Evi the Pooch 
