My shifts at the East Riding Theatre this week were cancelled so this morning was very relaxed. A nice cup of tea and a slice of toast before the day’s jobs. These included delivering my Mum’s Mothers Day card. This meant a quick visit to her house to deliver it. I went in just to say hallo and make sure she had her phone nearby so the family could ring her at any time.

I also took my repeat prescription to my doctor’s surgery. I was not allowed past the door and handed the papers to a nurse who seemed to be there to decide who could or could not enter. Fair enough.

When I got home Jenny and I discussed an arrangement we had made for an Indian meal  tonight with friends Mike and Maria. The tv news was full of advice not to go to restaurants generally and certainly not if you were over 70. Relunctantly we cancelled the meal in favour of staying at home. Our friends completely understood.

Further phone calls were made to friends to see how they were and also to check on future concert bookings. All have been cancelled. Fascinating Aida (Hull City Hall), all folk nights at the Processed Pea Folk Club and Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Band have bitten the dust. There is a danger that a show booked at the end of April is also in danger as is our holiday with Val and Nick to Germany in Mid May. A concert by Andy Fairweather Low in October, a holiday in the same month to Austria and our Golden Wedding celebrations in August, may all need to be called off. A great shame but a small sacrifice if we manage to stay healthy.

Jenny and I are both well and showing no signs of the dreaded virus. So a list of tasks in the home is getting longer. We might as well make use of the time. Our young neighbours, Simon and Shareen, put a card through the door offering help with shopping etc. How kind!! Hopefully we will not need any help but if we do, they are going to be our first port of call.

All the news about the virus is bad and we are constantly monitoring developments. The worst is yet to come but at least we have “Catch Up TV”.

The £/€ is £1.10.09. A week ago it had reached £1.20.60. So it has gone down 8.35%. That is really bad for travelling to Europe. Oh, I forgot. We can’t.