107 days in isolation/lockdown

Is a second spike of new Corona cases silently and sneakily building up in the background? No amount of headlines in the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday about preparing for a “boom” in the UK, will allay my fears. Unemployment could be as high as 3 to 8 million so who is going to benefit by this alleged “boom”. It used to be that wars were an opportunity for the rich to get richer and other shady deals to make some people a lot of money. Now it seems that pandemics have taken over as the world tragedy in which some people can make or enhance their fortunes, especially if they have the ear of those in power.ie Boris and his mates. Corruption is apparently rife but more subtle than a brown envelope under the table.

Scotland is doing much better than England in terms of numbers of deaths, having none reported in he last couple of days. They are much more cautious than us in England which in itself varies from region to region. Apparently the virus does not fare too well in the summer and so a second spike is more l, likely in October or November. The virus has not changed. It is still infectious and can still kill and needs to be dealt with, with caution and not taken for granted. In our house, nothing has really changed and we await definate instructions that we have beaten this thing, maybe with a vaccine being found that works and is available to the whole world.

We had a bit of a day out yesterday looking for a new suite. All the outlets were fairly empty and were observing the 2 metre rule rigorously. There was a huge queue outside Currys. A result no doubt of people having bought goods online that don’t work or they don’t understand. I empathise as I am in the same boat with my new Dell laptop. I have owned it for three months and still do not understand “the cloud”. Nor have I been able to transfer all our photos into “the cloud ” so I will need some advice from their experts but I will not be joining that queue.

There was mild police activity here last night when the police drove around our crescent (no flashing lights) and a bobby walked to the next close having a good look around. He then went. That’s what counts as excitement around here. We have no idea what he was doing.

We have had massive thunderstorms here in the last 2 days. Massive amounts of heavy rain but only in short bursts. Our garage which used to let alot of water in stayed dry so I had got the mastic in the right place. It is alot cooler now so haven’t had a chance to try out the base weights on our new parasol.

David called round today for a socially distanced cuppa in the garden.. He stayed for ages and only went because it started to rain. So I did some more Jigsaw. Now only 17 pieces of blue sky to fit.

UK deaths Saturday 27th June 100

UK deaths Sunday 28th June 36