Another early start.

Covid 19 March 27^th 2020-03-21

For some strange reason I am waking up at 5.50 every morning. This is rather annoying as I am tired and want to sleep. Also its not as though we don’t have enough hours in the day to get our jobs done! I do however love the early spring mornings, watching the sunrise up over Winter Hill and the mist hanging along the river, we have a good vantage point up here on Hillside road.

While we wait for it to warm up a bit and the frost to clear, we do a few household chores, washing vacuuming and mopping floors. A job that feels great when it's finished.

Boots on and we set off for a walk only a short one today as we have jobs that we want to get done before the weather turns cold in a couple of days. Along Hillside and up Oak Tree Road to Seymour Plain.  I am a bit puffed today, feeling tired and aching from the workout I did yesterday so glad when we reach the flat road. Past the houses we turn onto a footpath that leads into the woods, Chiffchaffs are calling, which makes me think that the migration must be well underway. Sadly we can’t get out to the places we normally go to find the birds. Looking at the map I think we are in Hunts wood, Ian calls it Marlow woods, after living here for 32 years you think we would know. When we first moved into Hillside road we used get Tawny Owls in our garden and hear Owls calls and night. We don’t get either of those now; they must have lived in these woods. I wondered why they don’t anymore but notice there is little vegetation on the ground so perhaps not enough food, mice, shrews etc. Passing through the woods we cut left and cross onto Seymour Court Lane there are some very pretty cottages here a nice and peaceful place to live. Taking the footpath through the fields down towards Munday Dean Lane we get a good view of Marlow, which is shrouded in a hazy mist this morning. It is sunny and warm we don’t need coats just a light fleece. Cutting through Seymour Park and up round the back of Barnhill gardens we limbo under some barbed wire and come out back onto Oak Tree Road and home. A short but nice walk and all in the countryside from our doorstep.

Back home we learn that Boris has contracted Covid 19 and is in isolation. People are claiming now that he did not implement measures soon enough, the Media have nothing better to do than to look for faults or create them if they can. Are things not bad enough already?

Painting the trellis and a bit of wall is now the order of the day. Well it is for Ian. We shift the BBQ and a few plant pots and soon he is hard at it. It looks an easy task but is quite fiddly and time consuming. I dismantle and scrub the BBQ it is now ready for warmer days. A light lunch of Tom Yam and noodle soup, Ian gets back to it and I have a snooze in the summerhouse, only for a few minutes. I love a catnap in the sun.

I catch up with my brother and check on his family, our niece is in London and works for Hackney Council in air quality control. It looks like she is going to be a front line worker now. Not sure what this entails just yet but it’s a bit worrying. She is fit strong and young so hopefully will be fine.

I am doing the covid 19 daily reporting. Kings college London has produced an app where you report on how you are feeling each day so they can track new symptoms of the disease. They say that 1 in 10 of the users of the app has the virus.

The virus is rampant in the USA and has topped 100,00 case now. A friend of mine who lives in Pittsburgh says people are not staying at home and taking little notice of social distancing. Over 9 thousand people have died in Italy and Spain has reported over 700 deaths in 1 day. UK is the same with over 700 deaths.

 The rate increases everyday. They cannot predict when the peak will come. Italy still has not peaked.

There are public health announcements being broadcast daily on the TV and radio. 

Distancing procedures have been set up inside and outside supermarkets.

So stay indoors, stay safe.

Bucks county council has suspended all parking charges. 

Home cooked fish and chips for dinner. Mmmmm chips, a treat for us.

14634 steps and 6 miles in total today.

Lots of contact from friends old and new its great to keep in touch.

Early morning in the garden