Football. How are we managing without it? Very well thank you. Of course I miss it a bit. Watching my granddson play on a Sunday morning for example but being alive is more important and I get angry at all the news media spending so much time and column inches on the plight of football clubs and their nutty supporters. There are hundreds of thousands of dead people to whom this is an irrelevance. In the grand scheme of things, who cares if Anytown United get relegated or not. People are dying but the Prima Donnas of the pemiership are still getting their tens of thousands of pounds, PER WEEK, even after some have donated 20% of their wages to charity. Give me strength!

There seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel regarding the progress of Covid 19 and some loosening of the lockdown are being considered. I will not be happy being in throngs of people until the virus has gone completely and/or there is a vaccine. My wife and I are in our 70s and we manage ok so why cannot eveyone else?

We’ve done more baking. I am having 100% success with my scones.There is a new word doing the rounds. Doughverkill. Definition…doing too much baking. That’s me folks.

Called to deliver a birthday card to my cousin Pamela who was going to a funeral in the afternoon. Her Uncle had died of Corona virus although he had “underlying medical problems”. Funerals are a strange affair at the moment. Only 10 mourners allowed in the Crematorium’s chapel. They had to stay in their cars until the coffin was taken in. Then the mourners had to, obviously, observe social distancing so no hugs. The service lasted 10 minutes only and still observing social distancing they had to go straight to their cars and then home. Obviously no wake was held. All very strange and upsetting.

We called at Mum’s yesterday to take some washing back. She is really doing well and is fully aware of what is going on. We took a couple of my own scones for the carer to prepare her for lunch instead of a trifle. We hope it is allowed. We had just left when one of her carers, an young angel called Jenna, was cycling to Mum’s house. We were sorry to miss her. She really cares for mum.

The total deaths in the UK has now exceeded 30,000 which puts us into top spot in Europe ahead of Italy and Spain and France are not far behind. In 5th place with only just over 7000 deaths, is Germany. That is about 80/90 per million of population whereas the UK figure is over 400 deaths per million. Germany’s population is 16 million more than ours. Doesn’t it make you feel proud. So, those nice graphs on the daily briefing are probably meaningless in terms of how well our polititians have handled the whole situation.

ALL UK Deaths Sunday 3rd May           315

ALL UK Deaths Monday 4th May          288

ALL UK Deaths Tuesday 5th May          693

ALL UK Deaths Wednesday 6th May    649   (hospitals 331)