Magic Wednesday ?

Ive been a few errands, roads seem very quiet, the 2 shops I have been in very quiet no queuing was a bit surprised really expected it choka!

My experience of not being at home when home viewings took place meant bathrooms used ( and not carefully!) and small ornaments and even a book went missing.

You can’t have visitors to your house. You can meet one to one in a public space, two metres apart.

My understanding Suedoku and Rosibie is that you could have one visitor in you garden as long as you socially distance , but not in your house

See we are firmly divided here into those trying to look for positives and those perpetually seeking negatives ! Easing of lockdown was always going to be complicated, guidance cannot be prescriptive or expected to cover every situation. We need to be applying commonsense in making decisions using the government guidance as just that, guidance. Yes there will be questions as to the logic of some people being allowed to do something whilst others aren't....I am thinking here of childminders having contact with children outside their household versus grandparents who can't...but believe this can usually be justified along the lines of one is someone's occupation and livelihood , the need to control the rate at which contact with others is resumed so that it is easier to re reinstate restrictions where necessary and also the need to protect those that are vulnerable, even if we don't like to recognise that we are! I am just happy we are moving into the next phase, albeit slowly and cautiously. Life won't change much for me, I will continue to be "alert" and take responsibility for my own wellbeing but I am pleased that my children and grandchildren will have more freedom.

My hubby and I played golf this morning. The Clubhouse is shut and we can only play in 2's. All tee times were well spaced out. We were only allowed to play 9 holes, but it was very enjoyable

Talking of the RHS - I took this picture of the Royal Hospital Chelsea grounds yesterday morning.

Something's missing

Can anyone explain this to me? I live alone, my friend lives with her DH. She doesn't drive - he does. If we want to meet for a chat, we can't, because she can't be dropped off at my house to sit in isolation in the garden for an hour, and I can't drive to hers to do likewise.
So we'd both have to drive to a park midway between us (with lots of other people about) and her DH would either have to sit in the car for an hour, go for a walk on his own or drive home and then back to pick her up.
If we all met, they wouldn't be breaking the rules (as they live in the same household) but I would, as there are more than one of them... ?
This is despite the fact that we've all been self-isolating for seven weeks now - and none of us have gone further than a walk round our respective blocks.
My DC both live a fair way from me - and as they are both key workers (nurse and teacher) they don't want to risk infecting me, so I know that I won't see them or the DGC for weeks/months yet, so I'd been really looking forward to sitting in the garden for a good talk to my friend ☹️
Madness..!!

Nothing is changing in this house so I hope that we won't have any disasters but I can't help thinking we will be heading for a another lockdown shortly.

I received an email from the RHS this morning, their plant centres are open from today, we live 2 miles from the nearest RHS garden, so we decided to visit, my husband stayed in the car, well, I was their first customer, and I was their only customer.
On the way home I stopped at a farm shop, 2 of us inside, 2 waiting to go in.
All good ?
Then I passed the local garden centre ? loads of cars queuing to go in - madness to me. I'm glad we went to the RHS instead.

I am housebound anyway but have watched what is going on via TV. And reports by Gransnetters. People getting on and off buses and the underground etc in towns. Not keeping distance in shops etc.
My home help comes to do those tasks impossible for me to do and I stay in a different room. I have had a shouted conversation with my neighbour opposite across our front gardens and the road.
So far only two mild cases in our village.

Gabriella a lovely surprise for your daughter.
Two years ago in different times I turned up at my sons 40th birthday party unannounced......in Sydney!

Im past caring what the day will bring- its just one disaster after another!!! Ive spent part of yesterday& a sleepless night worrying even more as a well known online shopping group took 2 payments of £750 instead of one- and spent all morning again on phone to them and bank trying to sort it out- only find the holiday company have refunded me to an a card now paid already!! So ive to ring them as well!(another premium rate number) oh & all the fun places(restaurants,pubs,hairdressers etc) arent opening till day AFTER my birthday!!! I give up

For our sanity, we cannot live in fear. I tend to agree with Puzzler61's comments.
There is no guarantee that a vaccine will be forthcoming and it is important to remember that the longer we are confined, our immunity system will weaken as a matter of course. Vitamin D is important for our well being.

Let up or not, I'm staying isolated for a while longer.

Good heavens GabriellaG you must have done it non-stop to drive about 250 miles by 10 o clock?
All for a one on one walk in the park?
OK I suppose I must admit to being jealous because I thought we over 70’s were not really meant to venture so far and oddly found that isolation from my AC easier to take when I felt we were all in the same boat

Went down to supermarket for a couple of bits this morning & everything very quiet.Did not see any of the shops that have been closed were open & queues outside all the banks but that has been the case every day anyway. WHY do people need to visit a bank unless they are collecting foreign currency. Surely most people do it all online these days & cash points everywhere too. I haven't set foot inside a bank for decades.
Maybe people were expecting town to be busy today & are staying at home.

I seriously think we need a Minister of Logic. I can drive to a park to meet my stepson, [he will also have to drive to park] where there will probably be lots of other folk, but he cannot come and sit in the garden - at a distance - to have a chat. He doesn't need to come through the house to access garden. DH and I had the virus in March so I don't even think we are at serious risk. Nobody has thought anything through at all.

It’s still quite quiet here today (in south east of uk). I expect the weekend will be busier and anyway, I think a lot of people have done their own easing of lockdown already! I’m just hoping people refuse to use public transport if they’re crammed in today...

Just to see my son talking about playing golf again makes me so happy. I will never take anything for granted again.

For those over 70 , the rules have not changed , I have just seen an update on the Anchor-Hanover Residents website in the news area under COVD-19 heading.
And it states , that residents can meet not outside the buildings but at locations away from it, such as in the town itself but the 2M distancing still applies ,relatives or not.
The Government as sending out mixed massages ,and the media are interpreting things other than laid down .
Mick

I suspect today in England will see mass movement of the population followed by a huge spike in cases.

If the person who spat on the transport worker is caught they should be charged with manslaughter.

My thoughts are we have to take some steps towards unlocking the country and the Governmenment scientists and medics
expect that as we do, the number of deaths will rise a little again.
But a lot more folk will get the virus - and not need a hospital or die. We need apparently for more of the population to have the virus for it to pass through. It isn’t going away no matter how long we leave it shut out of our homes and lives. We may have it in our communities for years and years.
My DH has gone to Golf today but he showed me the very strict rules in place by the Golf governing body applying to social distancing and Club house closed.
(He is well under 70 - no health conditions).

It takes months to sell and buy a house so the move won't be possibly when it's all over. Hopefully.