A few months ago I saw an old friend for the first time in years. We know each through the music session group because her husband played music with us sometimes. We exchanged phone numbers and she said she would like to come to our session group when she could and that she would try to learn an instrument.

For various reasons she hasn't made it to more than a couple of sessions but last week she asked via email whether I knew of anyone who could lend her a different type of instrument which she thinks she might be able to play because her late husband had begun to teach her many years ago.

One of the other members of our session group brought along an instrument he had and said that she could borrow it to see whether it suits her and if so, she can have it.

Our mutual friend couldn't make it to the session that week so I contacted her and arranged for her to pick up the instrument from my place. She stopped her car out the front and we had a lovely chat through the car window so that she wouldn't have to unload her wheelchair, and also so that we would be able to keep a proper, safe distance due to the virus.

I'm constantly amazed by the generosity of people. And the resilience.

I just don't know whether we can work out an alternate arrangement for the sessions so that we can still play music together while maintaining the required social distance. It will be strange not have sessions twice a week. I think we might have to bite the bullet and work out how to use video contact on our computers and each play in the safety of our own homes. That might be a steep learning curve for people who have been blissfully unaware so far of all that technology.