Poppy loves Zoom

Over the last year most of us have had to get used to conducting activities online whether for work or our interests. We are fortunate to have this ability to communicate and it’s certainly better than not being able to connect at all.

It can be tiring though, focusing on a screen for several hours at a time, especially when you have more than one workshop or online event on the same day as I have been finding increasingly often, with several different writing groups and so much available to join in with.

Poppy loves zoom though. As soon as I set up my laptop and she starts to hear voices her ears prick up and she makes her way over. She now has a permanent bed near my zooming station where she settles down for the whole session to listen in.

She recognises voices too from people she has met previously. Last summer when small groups of people were allowed to meet outside we held several socially distanced workshops here where we wrote in the peace of the garden and shared our work. Poppy greeted everyone when they arrived and made sure she received her quota of fuss and petting from each person before settling down for the meetings. She even insisted on joining us after her stroke although she needed help with getting about and her friends had to greet her instead of the other way around.

Those days of endless sunshine seem a long time ago now but we’re hoping to get back to doing this again and meeting in person though the weather will have to warm up a lot from this year’s recent hail and snow before we do!