COLLECTING CROCKERY AND FRIENDS. THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC

As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog post I love opshopping and have a collection of teacups and saucers. I am only now realising just how many friends I have who also love to go opshopping and also collect teacups 🍵 and saucers and other china pieces. I’ve gathered that this is a common thread among my female friends, particularly the most feminine and ladylike of my friends.

I’ve also realised that the impact of the pandemic curtailed a lot of that throughout our extensive experience of multiple lockdowns here in Melbourne. After months of enduring lockdown , we are now returning back to our love of activities we enjoyed before the pandemic changed our lives forever. I for one, have a renewed enthusiasm for going out shopping at charity second hand shops and have realised how much I love doing that in the company of like minded friends.

Yesterday I caught up with my friend Zohreh, whom I haven’t seen since the pandemic first hit our shores. I was so happy to see her after all this time, and I realised how much I had missed her presence in my life. I was so happy to see her, happy and well and contented and safe, as I know she has experienced her own challenges during the past couple of years. Zohreh is from Iran and seeking permanent residency here in Australia. She has endured a lot in her journey and I know she has gone through a lot of challenges and heartache to get to where she is now. She is one of the most beautiful people I have ever met and she is one of the most Christian of ladies I have ever met. She was raised a Muslim and converted to Christianity when she first came to Melbourne. I met her through our mutual church, which is Brunswick Baptist Church, and probably the most diverse and accepting church I have ever been associated with.

Zohreh is just so beautiful and it was so lovely to see her, and see her settled and thriving in her life. She showed me her collection of teacups 🍵 and saucers that she has purchased at opshops. Our respective little dogs, also met for the first time yesterday and it was lovely for our beloved dogs 🐕 to meet. I realised how much I’ve missed seeing Zohreh, and feel sad that the pandemic kept us apart, and only now are we both picking up where we left off, with our friends from pre pandemic times.

I now will definitely make sure that I make the most out of my renewed friendship with Zohreh, whom is truly an angel, and a fellow opshop angel like my friends Kathryn and Lani. Gods law of attraction is that he brings like minded people into our lives and I can’t think of what I would enjoy more than roaming through opshops looking for a bargain, with Zohreh, Kathryn and Lani. It is all part of Gods plan and I for one am so looking forward to the future post pandemic