Day 2: Calm before the storm
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Not been with the great unwashed today so a relatively calm and boring day with very little to report. It feels a little like the calm before the storm, waiting for more draconian rules to come. So making the most of my freedom while I still have it!
Oven is working. Lovely electrician Joe arrived at 9 this
morning, sorted it all and regaled me with tales of delivering his second
child on his own – well his wife was there of course but still impressive! Thank you to Kev who arranged it….not the child’s delivery but Joe’s visit to
fix my oven. Electrician-cum-midwife is an unusual CV but one which I imagine will stand him in very good stead over the coming weeks.
Went to have a pedicure today as I figured I am about 1.65 metres
tall and her arms are quite long so if I put my head way back then we were
about 2 metres apart. Either way my nicely polished toes will be something to look at if I get the Corona and I’m
flat on my back.
No shopping today as dinner was already prepped from yesterday. Perhaps that’s why I’m calmer.
Just heard there is no chicken anywhere – are eggs next? Could this all be a ploy to
get us to become vegans?
Tai chi is now cancelled – the last of my activities gone. This
does not bode well.
Husband at a funeral today. Gave him strict
instructions to be incredibly rude and not talk to anybody and preferably just
wave from the cemetery gate.
Upside to the Corona thing is that you can get an appointment anywhere for
anything…what next? Think this could be time for a piercing or a tattoo.
Will venture out tomorrow.
Have heard on the Coven grapeline that you don't have a shortage of knives in your house ... :-)
ReplyDeleteI also have been trying to let my local supermarket know I am over 70. I was going to do Click and Collect for my daughter's partner to pick up for me. No slots in the next three weeks unless over 70!
DeleteI have noticed something very strange over the last few days. I have a shower and blow dry my hair which is suddenly more manageable and looks just how I want it. I am unable to strut about feeling good as nobody else can enjoy it. Normally I spend ages to make it look presentable.
Should not crow, goodness knows what it will look like when this is all over.
Stay safe.
No shortage of knives yet.....
ReplyDeleteA very active day considering you were ordered to distance yourself! I only cycled amongst the trees and talked to 2 neighbours - at a distance of 2 metres of course.
ReplyDeleteSolitary walks very pleasant as everybody smiles at each other, particularly older people. Strange times.
ReplyDeleteHere in a small Cornish town it's life as usual in it's laid back style. The pasty shop is still operational so the natives have not yet resorted to a return to piracy. All the small shops have offered a delivery service, incuding the hardware shop, so I could amuse myself with some teach-yourself plumbing or ask for a mystery parcel to play identify the farming requisites (I might find I even have a need in future for Warble Fly Lotion.) At the other end of the panic scale I found to be the local surgery. It has superbly chosen this time to update their comp uter system and so on-line prescription service is no longer available. I thought I would be sensible and check what the system would be for a self-isolating asthmatic and was surprised to find the door locked and held a conversation at the door by a masked nurse. I felt alright until that experience and suddenly I felt in another place.
ReplyDeleteMy visiting family returned home last week and went body boarding just before they left in some of the roughest sea all Winter. My son left with the cheery words of ("I have hung all the wetsuits in the downstairs bathroom") and consequently every time I use the bathroom I am confronted by giant looming black figures - a heart attack will see me off before coronavirus.
to dry in the downstairs shower"). Everytime I use the bathroom I am confronted by looming black figures - I think a heart attack will get me before coronavirus.
many new experiences are coming thick and fast - not least the many offers of help to someone classified in 'that category'. It's boot on the other foot time! The best of human nature is also there amongst the worst - let's hope the best wins. Keep the blogs going.
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