I’ve been one of the people who went to the beach today although I didn’t actually go on the sand. I walked along the Southbourne prom with a couple of friends from U3A, we sat on the wall at the bottom of the cliff and ate our sandwich and drank our coffee. The beach was scattered with small clusters of people and it all looked very social distanced. For some reason, every year I forget that I might catch the sun just walking along and not sunbathing. Happened again today so when I got home and happened to glance in the mirror I had a pink face looking back at me. Some people never learn. Others who don’t seem to learn anything are the crowd who gathered at Durdle Door, small beach in a cove and the famous rocks giving the place its name. Visitors once again were jumping from the said rocks and got into trouble causing two helicopters and police to be called out. The helicopters landed on the beach with all the visitors herded together and being treated to a real live reality show. Great pic showing idiots being kept away from the rescue and then being shepherded up the cliffs and away. The police closed the beach. This isn’t the first time in lockdown that the emergency services have been called out to that area, I think it’s time the police closed that beach and clifftop until the end of lockdown.
I haven’t watched ‘Have I got news for you’ for quite a while but today I did following a news item referring to Ian Hislop’s Virtuoso Roasting of Dominic Cummings. He and Paul Merton were hilarious and I must say I enjoyed seeing it relayed via video link (I didn’t miss the canned laughter which spoils it on tv). Ian described Cummings’ ninety minute press conference explaining why he had ‘needed’ to break lockdown as utter twaddle, or as nannyjune would say, absolute tosh. He took especial exception (as did the rest of the uk except a few conservative cronies) to Cummings’ drivel as to why he drove to Barnard Castle to test his eye sight. ‘Why’ asked Ian ‘would he put a four year old in the back of his car and drive for 30 minutes to see if he could in fact see?’
So. the engineer, designer of the all electric Tesla car has just managed to launch a rocket into space. I can’t help feeling that Richard Branson might have his nose put out of joint over this event. But that isn’t the point, the point being that as one twitterer pointed out ‘the guy (Elon Musk) has now built rocket ships better and cheaper than any government ever and just sent an astronaut into space on one. Remarkable’. It is currently circling the earth and has already passed above Britain twice. After travelling for nineteen hours it will join the International Space Station which is orbiting the earth. I hope they sleep well in their space suits, in their space capsule and I hope you sleep well too. Good night.