I ask because I am a little concerned that I missed the memo cancelling the Lockdown.
Walking the dogs back in March in our allotted hour per day we bumped into a lot of people: cyclist, dog walkers, joggers, walkers. The car parks were full, and I am talking Martini here – anytime, anyplace, anywhere!
This time around we are “lucky’ if we bump into a handful of people. OK the weather has not been as good, and certainly not like it was in March, but nevertheless where is everyone? At work, school, the garden centre, or picking up a takeaway?
Back in March when you did bump into someone else there was a tendency to justify yourself: can’t walk the dogs at home as we have no pavements, I call in to run on my way back from picking up the shopping, I …. you get the picture?
This time around either the population can’t count, all the statistics on reduced family sizes have been wrong (possible given the Governments track record with numbers) or people just don’t care. I have yet to see just two people out walking …. one man and his dog, yes, families with children, yes, groups of 3+ adult friends …. you got it, yes.
Our week has been fine: we have managed without a visit to the Garden Centre or to pick up a Takeaway. We have walked the dogs every day. I have kept to my exercise and weight loss target, and we have seen my parents twice as part of the ongoing support bubble we have been in since March. Waitrose, Tesco, Amazon, Field and Flower, Donald Russell, Wiltshire Farm Foods and the Royal Mail have delivered all we need to both houses. The cleaners at my parents have been put on hold again until they (my parents) have been vaccinated, so once again I am being sent upstairs to clean my bedroom!
My parents have completed the Space Station Lego model we bought they for Christmas, and my father has had his second Pfizer vaccination as scheduled i.e. within 21 days. We will find out hopefully next week when my mother, who has some mild allergies, can have hers.
On Netflix I have been watching The English Game and we are both watching The Queens Gambit. The Message Man was “interesting” and worth a watch, if only for the concept of an assassins call desk/support service which I wont spoil, but it was a cool concept. Mostly though I have been watching Cricket and Reading Captain Tom Moore’s Autobiography.
A couple of Microsoft Teams meetings regarding the School I am Vice Chair of Governor of has reinforced how inept this Government is and how inspirational Teachers are in this country, and how the children deserve (and need) more than they get from the current Educational System.
On the subject of Video Calls I am now competing with my parents Cousins, old friends in America and school friends here in the UK for time to talk to them, so I have to run now as it is my turn in 5 minutes.
Hopefully you have had a safe, productive, and far more interesting week than I have had.