61 days in isolation/lockdown. Still no clarity. Could not have been better expressed than than the “stars” of Gogglebox on Friday’s Channel 4 tv. Find it on UK catchup tv.

I am taking less and less notice of polititians and in particular those on the daily briefings and all the ones who come on to political programmes. For goodness sake, can not one of them from any party, say yes or no to any question about the crisis. They are all as bad and each other and tend to start replies with “Well, what we are doing…..” or “That is why we are looking at……” followed by platitudes, statistics and anything else we either don’t uderstand or we have heard before. There is no leadership and all we get are generalities such as “stay alert” and contradictory advice about social distancing. For me it is simple. Stay at home!!!! Stay in the garden if you have one. Go for a walk near your home. Don’t go to the beach! Don’t clog up National Parks! Don’t go to the local tip! It’s not rocket science. Don’t take the chance of getting infected or infecting anyone else.  Bored, dead or fat? The choice is ours. Or move to Denmark if you can.

My German cousin Petra, is now getting worried about flying to the UK at the end of August to celebrate our Golden Wedding. Sally and Jim are also concerned about flying in from Romania as are pals from Scotland and other parts of the UK. At the moment, the party venue has not cancelled the booking and neither has the entertainment. I will try to get hold of them during the week ahead. If we have to cancel the whole thing it will be a big big disappointment.

David came with the grandchildren yesterday. We all kept our distance for 45 minutes although it was too cold for Ronnie who stayed most of the time in the car. It was lovely to see them.

We are still getting our walks in and are staying healthy. The NHS rang me about  postponed appointments with the consultant and physiotherapists. They could not give me any revised dates but were keeping in touch so that I didn’t worry. I’m not but it was lovely to be kept in the loop. Good old NHS.

My  community facebook pages keep me abreast of what is happening locally. There has been a spate of thefts of hanging baskets and being sold on a bench outside Sainsbury’s by local travellers, allegedly. The facebook sites have however kept us up to date on clubs and local societies. They have also unearthed some very funny people who entertain us with a tongue in cheek daily “blog”. Entertaining!! That’s what we need. One day I will meet George and buy him a couple of pints. His alleged long suffering wife too.

The statistics keep showing some improvements, if they are to be believed. Either way I am pessimistic. We have eased the lockdown far too early. I expect a second spike in infections in the future.

UK deaths Wednesday  13th May   494

UK deaths Thursday    14th May     428

UK deaths Friday          15th May     384

UK deaths Saturday      16th May     468