Chips anyone?

CV 19 The daily record. April 19^th 2020.

Days in Lockdown. 27.

A cool breeze and sunshine herald a very quiet Sunday morning.  After some bacon eggs and toast, I make some calls to keep in touch with people. Morning Andrea & Colin it was nice to catch up with you yesterday. Then I venture out into the garden. Despite the easterly breeze it is surprisingly warm.

The Pelargoniums I bought the other day are planted up and already the place looks much better. I hope we don’t get a bad frost, but don’t think we will now, they are quite tough plants for an annuals.

The garden is at one of its lull stages; bulbs are just about finished & the perennials not happening just yet. Well it is still early, only mid April feels much later than that. There is quite a bit of colour and some of the Clematis Montana’s are out, however Broughton Star is not just yet.

Here’s a thing, did you know that if it’s your birthday lockdown rules don’t apply? Well neither did I, but next-door had a birthday yesterday and the elderly father and Mother came round and sat in the garden eating cake and chatting for a good couple of hours. No social distancing took place; well either that or they have no idea how far a 2 metres distance is. To crown it all the father said, I don’t understand all these people going out to the beach and things don’t they realise they could infect several other people. I had to go indoors before I yelled at them, “what makes you think that you are special and that this does not apply to you”. There were 6 of them 4 adults and 2 children you think one of them would have had some sense of this is wrong. I was fuming mad, in fact I still am.

Ian spent the morning cooking and catching up with one of his walking pals. The afternoon was spent weeding and reading. Something happened to Ian’s dry oil spray suntan lotion as when I turned round he was glistening like a well oiled Chippendale, I mean the men not the furniture. He was so greasy you could have fried chips on his chest. What the hell have you put on I cried, it’s the same as normal so no idea what happened. Anyway I had to try to scrape it off with kitchen roll before he fried, it was hilarious. 

After dinner we watched the One World Concert which was put together to thank all the key workers. People from all over the world were performing via video link. The UK version was highlights from the USA concert that was shown on Saturday, plus additional UK artists. I was a bit dubious of this whole thing, imagining Mick Jagger pouting and strutting like a cockerel round his kitchen or living room. However the Rolling stones were actually quite good except for Charlie Watts lack of drums. Elton John was playing the piano on his drive way and sounded like he had a bad case of hiccups, Ian commented that Burna Boy still had his prison uniform on. We did enjoy most of it and it must have been a difficult thing to pull together.

They did show all the empty streets across the world Paris, Rome, NY, Amsterdam, Las Vegas it was a very strange sight indeed.

 Blue Tit update.

We got a glimpse of some eggs in the nest but could not see more than 3 as it is still covered up. The female is brooding them a bit more now, and as she flew in and settled down the male popped his head in a presented her with a small grub. Sweet. The photos are not that good but hopefully you get the idea.

Lamb tagine for dinner.

CV News.

Less people died in the UK yesterday fewer than 600. (596)

The papers are starting to make assumptions about lockdown release, which will no doubt cause problems when it doesn’t happen. If they are correct it will be in 3 stages red, amber, green.

Papers say the schools will go back in May, but the briefing says that there are no plans for schools to go back, as they cannot make a commitment until it is safe to do so.

A large delivery of PPE was supposed to have arrived in the UK from Turkey but it was delayed; no reason was given as to why.

Boris might be starting to take on a bit more work, but will wait and see as we all know you cant believe what you read in the papers.

World Stats cases.

Confirmed

2402,249

Recovered

624725

Deaths

165234