Coronavirus the daily record

Sunday 22^nd March 2020

This is my record of events that are happening (or how I perceive them)and also how Ian & I are coping with them it is not intended to be me telling people what they should or should not do.

Boris has just inferred that a lock down is imminent. Mainly due to people not adhering to social distancing.  Hoards of people have taken to the coast congregating on beaches and in parks and open spaces.  People are still not getting it, are they not listening to the news seeing what is happening in the rest of the world or is it just a gung-ho attitude.

Also a 1.5 million people have been identified as being especially vulnerable and are told they must stay at home for the next 12 weeks. Special measures are being put in place to care for them and feed them. They will need a lot of volunteers to carry this out not sure how that is going to work, as we all need to keep our distance.

Today we had a fantastic walk, well within the social distancing guidelines and as we ventured out into the countryside there were very few people we came across. They were all probably down in Higginson Park – enough said.

I have also read that a lot of people have fled London and gone to Southwold where they are sitting along the pier, as you can imagine this does not impress the locals. There are also reports of the Lake District and Snowdonia being inundated.

Ian and I are at loggerheads, as he wants to go out with his walking group tomorrow. I don’t think he should go if there is more than 7-10 of them. He thinks it is totally acceptable as long as they keep to the 2-metre distance.  I have come here to write my diary so we don’t fight about it. However if he gives me the disease and I die I will never forgive him!  (Ha Ha) Hopefully there will only be a few of them. I will have to get a decontamination chamber set up in the garage for his return. I have some bleach and a very hard scrubbing brush, that will teach him.

I hope we don’t get stopped from going out as it is going to keep us sane and stop us from killing each other. Also we are very aware that we need to keep fit.

Many more weeds were evicted from the garden this afternoon and we managed another hour or so in the summerhouse with the doors open catching a few rays. Ian looks like he has caught the sun on his face. Topped up the vitamin D any rate.

I was thinking how lucky we are that we had the work done on the house last year, so we have a lovely kitchen to enjoy cooking in. We have also decided that we are going to try out new recipes to keep us busy. This could also cause more in fighting. A – who is doing the cooking? B-the other one overseeing and tutting or even worse stirring or shaking the pan.

Ian is cooking Persian Lamb wraps tonight. I had better get down and stir something or tut loudly at the mess.

Well looks like my morning tomorrow is sorted setting up the decontamination unit and disinfectant trough.

Distance covered today over 5 miles.

2 hours of gardening

No snoozing.

Here are some pictures from todays outing.

 

Bovingdon Green

Munday Dean

After gardening thirst quencher.