I was going to have a pre-work walk today, but it looked so bleak and gloomy even at quarter past seven that I didn't bother ( Read more... )

I'm just back from a much-needed family weekend away in the Peak District; I am so glad I was able to get away, as it was my first holiday in over a year.

FridayWe had the journey to the Peak District, and we tried two service stations. My heart sank at the first, as when we arrived, we saw people flowing non-stop into it; we'd arrived just after ( Read more... )

We had a day out at Ickworth today; it was quite nice, and enjoyable to walk around, but some of the other people there were a bit annoying. We spent some time waiting for a group of people to stop blocking an entrance because they were just faffing around, because we're quite polite and won't voilate the social distancing rules, even if people are ( Read more... )

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I went to the podiatrist today. It was a bit weird being there for half an hour with a mask on, but the hardest thing was getting there. I'm getting to the point where I'm hoping the enforced social distancing doesn't last much longer because when you're I'm to cross the busy road, with people walking in pairs towards me from both directions, it ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut today; my usual barber was suddenly unavailable, which might mean he's on holiday, but I liked the result anyway.


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This morning I got my second telling off from a stranger for not socially distancing right.

I was just stopping to cross the road because someone up ahead was at a standstill; I heard a shout, and realised there was a man on the other side of the road, and he had stopped to tell me on no uncertain terms that I was not to even think of crossing the ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that if I designed a social distancing-complaint system, it would be totalitarian to the point of being unreal ( Read more... )

Today, I had one of my biggest near misses in social distancing terms with several people rushing out of the front of their garden as though they couldn't see what was happening on the street in front of them - I had to quickly cross the road when I saw them appear out of the corner of my eye ( Read more... )

I just about managed with the church zoom meeting, with setting it up and live streaming to Youtube today, though I didn't quite manage to start screening during the initial reading of the verse for today ( Read more... )