The optimism of yesterday has evaporated after today’s figures. Although the increase in deaths was not, apparently, unexpeced, it is still a body blow to hopes of a sustained improvement. I shall not try and out guess the statistics in the future and just keep fingers crossed instead. What is also alot clearer today is the pressure the NHS is under, even more than before. Hopefully the news that our local Hull Company, Smith and Nephew, has won a contract to start manufacturing ventilators. They start this week and this news could not have come at a better time.

We continue to do the usual things at home but managed to get a 3 kilometer walk in during the afternoon. We walked past Aldi and although there was a very long queue, it was orderly and all customers were in ones and were obeying the two meter rule. We did not need to join it. We are OK for provisions, except biscuits. A good job that Sally is not here.

One of the initiatives parents have been getting their children to take part in, is to draw a scene with a rainbow in it to support all NHS workers and display them in their front windows. We have seen dozens as we walk around the village. One of our grandchildren, all of whom did a drawing, won’t put hers there as she believes people may think she is a lesbian. I think she is getting mixed up with the Gay Pride symbol.

Good to see Prince Charles is on the mend.

Only 7 deaths in China today and 36 new cases. Yeh, right!!

UK deaths 563.