If anyone had told you at the start of 2020 that you would be told to stay in your house for 40 days you just never would have believed it….. it’s only a few months since we were all standing side by side in crowds, in shops, meeting each other with hugs & kisses. Now we go out for a walk or to the supermarket and we are all skirting around each other like a shark swimming through a sea of minnows.
I think in these last few days we have finally been feeling a bit of boredom… the weathers not been as good and I’m struggling to find the motivation to do stuff inside. That’s where the surprise myself with a task comes in. I had no intention whatsoever of doing the housework today and yet boom… blitzed, done. Only to finish the sun room and kitchen floor. Even cleaned windows!! If I’d gone to bed last night thinking I was gonna do the housework I’d have found a million other things to do but instead I just started pottering and went full head down cleaning mode!
Thankfully my neighbours supplies me with some wonderful lockdown content today….
I went to the Co-op in Beith this afternoon and felt like it was the first time that people didn’t seem to be so scared of each other. There’s still that funny thing that you think if you keep your head down and don’t make eye contact then you can pass each other less than 2m apart??!?? The Co is a small shop and it’s impossible to be 2m apart in some of the smaller aisles. They have tape marks on the floor 2m apart all the way round. The first 5 aisles have walk this way arrows… down the first up the second etc. Then in about the 5th of 6th aisle that disappears as it’s now a queuing aisle for the self service checkouts. I got to the top of this aisle expecting to walk down and my head melted…. what do I do?!? 🤦🏻♀️😬🤣 it goes to show you that 2m distancing isn’t always possible in shops like that. They’ve done away with the entrance and exit segregation at the door, it’s just a free for all. So I probably got too close to lots of folk as I walked round. Is there a complacency setting in as we’ve been shopping so many times and not caught anything therefore assume we’ll be ok?? Maybe an element of that.
I was desperate for a coffee and a scone so we had scones with butter and raspberry jam and they were lovely. The scones themselves were pretty rotten but the butter and jam was lovely 🥴❤️ so this was only a wee shop for dinner and tomorrow. Still cost me £75 for some reason.
After some chat on the Overland Bound group we realised we needed to run the diesel heater in the car to ensure that it doesn’t over carbon… I know it was better English than that… need to run the engine to charge the battery to run the heater.
Another 621 deaths yesterday taking our total to 28,131. Have to see what the next few weeks bring in terms of lockdown easing but have to watch it so that it doesn’t spike another load of deaths.
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