Covid - news and views

At the beginning of the week our local pharmacy was closed due to Covid. Now our pub is also closed.

 I'm re-arranging sites stays and opting for smaller quieter places without shared facilities.

Brue,  Could they just be getting together to make a seasons worth of  70% proof hand wash and sterilizer,   ??

Sorry,  I'll go and dream such thoughts in private, hic 

50K new cases yesterday, however, we are just enjoying life, beautiful day yesterday and our beaches very quiet, mostly pebbles, thankfully, so no difficultly doing the social distancing bit, beautiful day today, caravan on the hard standing until September but that is normal for us, dont do the July/August thing, like to make way for the younger generation.

Notice on our Surgery- " Holidaymakers do not enter". If you need assistance phone your own provider. If you  feel you have Covid symptoms do not enter, phone 111 and seek advise.  Cant believe this is an isolated incident, so visitors need details of their own surgery before leaving. Another item to the tick list.

The advantage of living near to the coast Rufs. I've enjoyed similar in the past.

I was listening to holiday traffic through the night, we can hear it in certain weather. It sounds like a busy summer ahead.

I hope people have safe holidays and if the weather's good they'll be able to stay outside in the fresh air.

some retirement this is turning out to be, we dreamed of taking the van out 4, 5, 6 times a year and then only three months in the first shutdown began! We're just grateful neither of us have had the disease and we belong to an organisation that doesn't require deposits etc. Now both double jabbed we're still hoping for North Yorkshire and Scotland in September (Ms Sturgeon permitting!)

Talking to a youngish teacher today as she walked past. She is not at school as she and her partner, also a teacher, have both been struck down by Covid, although they both have had their second jobs. They have been quite poorly and unable or fit enough to leave their house for over a week, she was still breathless and her partner still had a severe cough and was continuing to self isolate. So the vaccination is certainly not the be all and end all.

Both sides of us I heard neighbours children in the garden, different ages, different schools. Seems both sent home as covid in their bubbles. Then phone call to say granddaughter sent home, same reason. On the local news that covid has increased here by 140 percent in a week. We had planned a meal out this evening but decided on caution and got  Chinese takeaway instead. 

We seem to have dropped lucky with our recent break away in Scottish Borders recently. Case numbers have rocketed since we got back. It was a very different break, we did little in the way of town visits, or to many tourist sites, stuck mainly to the beach and some nice garden visits. I think this is going to be the pattern for us this year, avoid crowds, busy towns, concentrate on the outdoors. In truth, it’s not that dissimilar to our usual breaks away, just needs a bit more planning. I think a lot of tourism is going to suffer from lack of staff to be honest, either unable to recruit, or businesses forced to close to self isolate. 

Earlier in the pandemic there were lots of complaints about the Test and Trace system not working fully/correctly. Now that it is working fully yet more complaints about it working too well!! It is obviously a loose loose system!