118 days since isolation

A “do nothing day” on Moday. Slept for 10 hours and Jenny even longer. Very changeable weather today and we didn’t even go for a walk.

I have developed a rash on my toes. It looks a bit like excema but there is no soreness or itching. Its been there a while so if there is no change I will go to see the GP or ring 111.

As I went to bed on Sunday, from my upstairs window I saw the security light on the house opposite, come on. I went to the window and there was a lovely fox, happily skipping along the pavement. He had a lovely brush. Wildlife during the Covid crisis.

The Sunday and Monday and Tuesday deaths are much reduced again and although the trend is low, as always on these days, the numbers are edging towards zero. Hopefully this will continue despite Boris’s dithering over the wearing of masks. Once again he had left it to the public’s common sense as did his Eton buddy, Gove. Why not just bite the bullet and enforce the rule. Well, it appears he has seen the light but it is not clear how it is to be enforced. Lots of people do not have the common sense he craves. Does he not remember the beaches at Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago? The deaths are low again today so onward and downward.

Went to see Mum today. She was in good spirits and said she was looking forward to her lunch. We chatted about where she lived just after the war and when I was born. Mum and Dad lived together in Kronshagen outside Kiel in a flat. Dad worked for the Control Commission in Friedrichsort. Because she was to be sent to a British Military Hospital, she spent her confinement in Hamburg at a BMH in Barmbek area and then went back to the flat near Kiel, my first home until I was 10 and a half months old. She thinks it was on Kopperpahler Allee. They left there in 1949 to go the UK and when they visited Oma two years later when I was three, they stayed at Dellenberg 5, with Oma and when we went the next time, Oma was already living at Kiebitzredder 10, on the first floor of the Braesch family home.

UK deaths Monday 13th July 11

UK deaths Tuesday 14th July 138