57 days in isolation/lockdown. Politically it has been a busy two days with Boris and Loony Tunes taking centre stage. Boris spoke nicely to the nation for over 13 minutes and said absolutely nothing. He thumped his desk for effect and I cringed. When he announced more detail yesterday, it left me and most people I know, totally confused. Alot of the rules have been relaxed but I am unsure exactly what they mean. In the end, Jenny and I are staying in as we are staying safe. Seeing people pile onto trains and buses is frightening. Why is there an easing of the rules? We can now go and visit family  but only one of us at a time and only outside. How do we choose who goes? Barmy. I’ve just watched the news with a piece showing patients who, hopefully, are just coming out of intensive care. One poor chap has not seen his wife and daughter for a month. All the patients interviewed have been through hell and are still suffering in recovery. They were all surrounded by dedicated staf fully protected and wired in to a bewildering array of machines and equipment. And there are still people who think it is not that serious and totally ignore social distancing. Idiots!!! Which brings me back to the racist American President who was caught out at a Whitehoue interview. How can he justify talking to a reporter in the way he did? But she stood her ground and he couldn’t take it and left the stage early even though he had picked his next questioner.

We had a lovely phone call from our very good friends Andy and Lindy who live near Keighley. It was quite poignant as we were looking forward to our holiday in the Harz Mountains in Germany this coming Friday which has been cancelled. We really could do with this holiday but still have our holiday to Saltzburg in September with Andy and Lindy. The intention was to go to the Munich beer festival but that has already been cancelled. I fear for the trip anyway especially as I think there will be a new spike in Corona Virus cases as I firmly believe we are relaxing the rules far too early.

Our golden wedding celebrations here in Cottingham are also on a knife edge. We have not heard from the venue but our band are telling us that they are having gigs in November cancelled.

Good news on the kittens in Bucharest. We had a great video call from Sally and Jim. They are progressing nicely and are becoming like mischievous toddlers. The kittens have been given temporary names, Lucky an Licky but await permanent adoption to be named properly. They are really super cute and I will try to work out how to post a picture on this tablet.

There continues to be an improvement in new Corona cases an reduction in deaths but until we are down to nil in all respects, I just study the graphs out of interest.

UK deaths Monday 11th May    210

UK deaths Tuesday 12th May    627