Mid-morning coffee with Grandma and conversations about marriage
May 11, 2020, 07:44 PM
São Domingos de Rana, Portugal lockdown sound recorded by Leonor Carmo.
"3rd of May, 2020. It's Mother's Day in Portugal. Three generations of women — grandmother (87), mother (60) and daughter (20) — share a mid-morning snack of espresso coffee (in beautiful Chinese porcelain cups) and Portuguese custard tarts in the backyard. The day feels strangely like summer: the birds are singing, the pool's vacuum is running, it's scorching hot at 11 o'clock in the morning and the shade is the only place where it's truly pleasant at the moment. My mum sets the parasol in place so my grandma won’t get sunburnt, as this is the first time she has left the house since quarantine began. The topic around the table is marriage and its passing. My grandmother lost her husband fifteen years ago and my parents got divorced in 2019, on New Year’s Eve."
Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
"3rd of May, 2020. It's Mother's Day in Portugal. Three generations of women — grandmother (87), mother (60) and daughter (20) — share a mid-morning snack of espresso coffee (in beautiful Chinese porcelain cups) and Portuguese custard tarts in the backyard. The day feels strangely like summer: the birds are singing, the pool's vacuum is running, it's scorching hot at 11 o'clock in the morning and the shade is the only place where it's truly pleasant at the moment. My mum sets the parasol in place so my grandma won’t get sunburnt, as this is the first time she has left the house since quarantine began. The topic around the table is marriage and its passing. My grandmother lost her husband fifteen years ago and my parents got divorced in 2019, on New Year’s Eve."
Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds