It is exactly three weeks since I started this blog recording my activities and thoughts during the lockdown period. I looks very much like the situation will remain the same for several more weeks yet. However, I am well and in good spirits although I read that today more people have died in the UK than previous days and that is not including deaths in care homes or private households.
My granddaughter Joni phones me every other day or so to see how I am and to have a chat about what we are both up to etc. She is trying to persuade me not to do my own shopping which I like to do when I am taking Jasper out. I am able to leave him tied up outside Filco whilst I nip in to fetch essential items. I do this two or three times a week and as I have a well stocked freezer and larder (no hoarding) it is usually milk, bread and fresh fruit and veg. on my list. There is a list of volunteers willing to shop for elderly and infirm folk and although I am in the first category I am not in the second and I feel that by using a service involving someone else's time and effort I may be denying it to a person more in need. Anyway, it gives me a sense of being in charge of my own destiny which I feel some of you may be able to identify with. I am careful how I go about the exercise - only buying what I need, not handling goods on the shelves, keeping my distance and putting on a glove to punch the numbers for my debit card, It was interesting today to see that a woman ahead of me at the checkout was purchasing euros at counter. What on earth was she going to be doing with them? She can't be going anywhere, can she?
Spoke to son and family in Antwerp today. They seemed cheerful and were going to have a barbecue in the garden.
Below is a picture I took this evening of one of my neighbours. He seems to have turned his van into a drinking den. Or perhaps it's the doghouse if he is not allowed to drink in the house although he had one of his cats in there as well for a while. One of the cats that Jasper has his eye on!
Spent an hour down the allotment this evening cutting the brushwood from around the plum tree and further along. There might some room for raspberry canes later. I hope the compost and seeds come soon so we can get on with that.
Snippet from the News
The Government has urged members of the public to refrain from wearing clinical face masks so supplies are available for NHS and care workers who need them most.
Speaking at a regular press conference on Friday Health Secretary Matt Hancock said choosing to wear a mask was not a "risk-free option".
It comes amid fears that the health service is facing shortages of protective equipment. Authorities on Friday declined to say how many NHS staff had died from coronavirus, citing confidentiality reasons.
"We follow the science and the science on the use of face masks says that they don't have a material impact outside of those settings that Public Health England have set out," Mr Hancock said.
"But also here we are following the international evidence too: the WHO themselves have looked into this and came to the conclusion that facemasks should be saved for those in health and care who really need them.
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Random Photo
Egg at the Eden Project, Cornwall, October 2014.
Enough of theatrical sets in the margin let's have some pets.
TOT ZIENS! Don't eat all your Easter eggs at once!
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