For whom the bell doesn't toll

With the silencing of the Big Ben until summer 2021 I began to wonder/completely stole this idea off a lady on Facebook about what summer 2021 may be like for GO and myself.  

When I think back to where we were four years ago and how much our life has changed since then and yet in so many ways it is still the same.  

In summer 2013 we were still basking in the newlywed glow, we were most definitely in the honeymoon period.  We had taken a trip to East Germany/Poland with my parents.  We were both in jobs that we wanted to leave but didn't know quite how to go about it.  We had kicked our fertility explorations into gear and we're still at the "maybe this will be our month" stage (we weren't cynical then).  There was an frisson of change in the air, the world was our oyster. 

Summer of 2017 we are now well and truly old marrieds, we have habits and foibles that only we understand.  We have managed to spend almost six weeks together (24 hours, seven days a week) without harming each other.  Yes we've bickered but then that it a lot of time to spend with one person.  We attempted to Interrail, it became InGermanrail.  We toured Germany hitting München and Berlin and the chilling out at Mamilein and Papichen's for a week.  We have, in my opinion had an absolute blast this summer and have made the most of it.  A particular higlight has been the day we spent sailing (bucket list) it was so much fun and may be something I need to look into doing properly.  Work wise I am between schools having just finished a year long contract in quite a tough school, I have learned a lot about myself as a teacher (the job may have lost some of it's sparkle for me).  GO seems to be very happy working as a lead chef at the OA centre.  He is beginning to make friends and is always making plans with people.  Family wise we began the adoption process last summer and were paused early this summer as we "don't seem to have any fire under us".  It stung at first but now I'm wondering maybe it's not for us.

Looking forward to summer 2021, four years isn't a huge amount of time in the grand scheme of things but...  We'll both be in our forties, perhaps we'll have a couple of big trips under our belts, did someone say Canada?  Maybe we'll be homeowners, parents.  We could even have fur babies.  That's the thing about the future it hasn't been written yet and we can and should make it what we want it to be.  Now where is the nearest lottery kiosk?