CV19 The Daily record Sunday 3rd May 2020.
Day 41
Ian is still not feeling too well; he is very quiet so I know he is not so good. It’s not the virus, he has pains in his lower abdomen / pelvic area, they are not as severe as they were yesterday but obviously affecting him. While he sits quietly and reads I spend hours in the garden. I have put up the canes for my sweet peas, weeded a million weeds and cut all the dead wood out of clematis. Now I have a stack of garden rubbish that I can't get rid of, but my do I feel good? I keep popping into the house to see if he has rallied any but he is just the same.
However he has been keeping an eye on Mrs BT and we have a hatchling, chick no 1 is swiftly followed by chick no 2.
Late afternoon I decide that it's time for a rest and its warm enough to sit in the summer house and read a while all time keeping an eye on the nest. It is fascinating to watch. Mrs BT keeps diving down into the nest, she eats some of whatever is left in the egg and then she eats the shells. Mr BT brings in caterpillars and she tries to feed the chicks that look like aliens. Their heads are so heavy they can barely lift them up and flounder about as if severely intoxicated. Incredibly she manages to get one to eat, their instinct to survive is incredible and although they can barely move and are blind, as soon as food is available the little beak opens begging for food. Ian is absolutely enthralled by it. This is the best year for the camera too it has worked really well and of course we have had the time to dedicate to it.
Ian does rally later in the day; I know he is feeling better as he starts to ridicule people on the TV.
We watched Primates again and laugh loudly at the Gibbons they have such long arms, twice as long as their legs I think we were told. The baby ones are hilarious and run around like naughty human offspring, waving the extra long appendages as they go. We love the nature programmes, our planet is such a wondrous place.
Well I have been thinking what will life be like in a week’s time. Do you think that things will have radically changed and will we move with those changes or stay in lockdown mode? The papers are reporting that a large % of the population have corona phobia and will stick in lockdown mode. They say people are afraid to go back to work, is it because they are worried about integrating again or just don’t want to go back to work. I know it doesn’t apply to me but I know which camp I would be sitting in.
We had a light meal of home cooked fish with chips and peas as this is what Ian fancied to eat.
Other news.
As we were just going to bed it was announced that there would be a prime time TV broadcast to the nation next Sunday outlining the easing terms. (Not Thursday)
Roche have developed an antibody test that is 100% accurate to tell if we have had the virus. It will be available for use in just 2 weeks time.
The rate of infection in the North West of the country has overtaken London.
Even if they do ease lockdown they are warning that they could reinstate it at any time if the rates go back up.
There are pictures in the paper of Broadway Market in Hackney rammed with young people, some carrying pints of beer as they walk down the street. The parks are also crowded.
Businesses are slowly opening, which I find strange, as they have not been told that they can.
A friend of ours went past a local garden centre, which is open, and the car park was packed solid with cars and there was no queuing or social distancing going on.
There were 315 UK deaths reported.
The USA and Italy are easing lockdown.
As I type this on Monday morning we have 8 baby BTS and 2 unhatched eggs.🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🥚🥚
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