Beginning

We’ve started.

We have been building up to today for a long time, but I never thought thought this would be how we would start. I imagined a special moment gathered in the rain with family, and a plastic cup of some warm fizzy wine to give thanks for the milestone we had reached and celebrate new beginnings. Ha! Instead, we have a Pandemic, glorious sunshine and a few understandably nervous neighbours. Life.

I continue to worry over whether starting is the ‘right’ thing to do. I spin it round and round, looking at it from all the angles. I don’t know the answer. What I do know is that the team will be following government guidelines to ensure everyone’s safety, our workers will earn money to provide for themselves and their families, and we will get going on a project that’s been a year in the making.

This moment reminds me of the time just before you find out you’re pregnant. We’ve taken the test, it’s positive and now we have entered the unknown. So much is happening, but it’s not yet visible, so we are anxiously waiting and hoping it’s not a false start. There’s a long road before delivery.