Day 106 Keep Your Distance!

Notes for new readers - as this is a diary the first entry is the last, so you get to know 'who done it' before the crime is committed! This is a pain but can't be helped. After a week of entries the scrolling will stop and if you want to venture further click on 'OLDER POSTS' and read until you get to the first entry 'The Day Before Day 1.

I thought I detected a rancid smell from my fridge so I decided to give it a good clean this morning. I couldn't find anything to account for the pong but I threw a few things out and reorganised the shelves. All tickety-boo now.

When Joni rang she said her ticket has been booked for her trip to Italy. She is going on Saturday from Heathrow. I have given her some money towards some new clothes.

Matthew and Saskia Face-timed to discuss some Dutch thing they were translating in English and wanted some advice. We had a chat. Tess showed me the cake she had made. 

It has been very windy today and on our afternoon walk (no Sheila) I saw that the broad beans had taken a bashing and I spent some time propping them up with sticks. I picked a few strawberries.

Snippet from the News

Concern has been raised over the reopening of pubs in London after scenes from Soho appeared to show people failing to observe social distancing rules.

Numerous pictures and videos have been shared online of packed, crowded streets in the famous London district.

One Twitter user wrote: “Just seen the scenes in Soho. It’s as if the health care workers who risked their lives trying to deal with the pandemic were just wasting their time.”

Another wrote: “Cycling through London tonight made me cry. Heaving with bodies & puke, the continual sound of police sirens. The queues in Soho like when England win a match. And yet we didn’t win. We lost! People will always be trash. But none more so than the Tories. This is on them.”

One man who passed through Soho told the Daily Mirror: “Walking down old Compton Street felt like wading through a Petri dish.”

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SONG

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Random Photo

I believe this to be a photo of my brother-in-law Leslie. He is wearing a sailor's hat bearing the name Grantully Castle which was a passenger ship of the Union-Castle Line. The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. Leslie was born in South Africa in 1920 and I think this picture was taken on the family's return home aboard the Grantully Castle soon afterwards. They then went to Canada.

TOT ZIENS! Keep Baking! Keep your distance!