Day 50...

A walk...

A shopping trip...

Some more wild garlic foraged...

And in between all that, more old photos processed, some housework done, a reminder that Queen’s Innuendo album is really REALLY good, some life admin, dinner cooked (chicken & mushroom pasta with some of the wild garlic), a shopping list written and a few other bits and pieces. It’s getting tougher to fill the time on days when MrEH is working, I’m trying to mostly stay off social media during the day as it's just making me cross a lot of the time. I’ve no issue with those who either genuinely don’t understand the new guidelines, or those who disagree with them for whatever reason (although allowing that they are driven by the UK’s leading experts in the relevant fields, it does have to be slightly questioned WHY those people consider themselves more qualified - especially as presumably nobody else considers them to be so, else they would be standing at a lectern in the briefing, and Chris Whitty would be sitting at home on his sofa eating Pringles). I do have a problem with those who are pretending not to understand for political reasons though, and I struggle not to call out bullshit like that. There is also a new brand of arsery on Twitter in particular - those who get their kicks by sneering at those who are furloughed. I suspect prior to this those same people would have cheerfully referred to anyone claiming any form of benefits as “scroungers” so at least those folks are getting a break!

In spite of the small changes to the lockdown we aren’t planning to do things too differently here for the next little while. I may add a run as well as our walk to my day tomorrow. We might drive the short distance to one of our local nature reserves on Thursday for either a run or a walk along the river to Ware and back, and then grab our binoculars from the car for a little look to see what birds are about, most likely that will be about it though. It seems likely that the weekend might be quite busy generally, so we’ll stay on foot and stay local. That’s what suits us, right now.

Robyn.