81 Days, that really is too long isn’t it. I Just read my Day 1 to see what was happening. Not a lot and it was just about me pottering about at home, busy doing nothing as the song goes. Twelve weeks later and I’m still pretty well non productive. Now I have to read the news and comment on that because I can’t keep mumbling on about Joe Wicks and doing or not doing the housework. Today Sam and Paul were out for a bike ride so they called in on their way home for a coffee and chat. Very nice. Then I managed to do something useful, I prepared a mailing list for the U3A newsletter which we are sending out to all members. Trying to keep everyone in the loop with what’s happening, as if we know. This evening I watched the Salisbury Poisoning that I mentioned yesterday. It was better than I expected, did anyone else tune in?
There’s some news feed that keeps showing headlines about the array of tiaras that different royal women wear. I think the first one was the queen, another day, Princess Diana, then Duchess Camilla. Does someone really think that’s what we are interested in during lockdown? Sorry, I haven’t bothered reading them. Talking of items of value, in Switzerland a bag with three kilos of gold was left on a train last October. No one popped into the Swiss lost property office so officials have made the find public hoping the owner will come forward. The stash is worth £150,000. Do you think they haven’t even realised they’ve lost it? Or maybe when he did realise he had a heart attack and died. I don’t suppose I could pretend it was me.
In Greater Manchester this weekend there were two illegal raves attended by six thousand people. During the fun weekend, a man died from a drug overdose, a young woman was raped, three people were stabbed and police were attacked. The news reports didn’t say if anyone had enjoyed themselves but I saw on tv the disgusting mess they had left behind. A whole load of local volunteers came out to help authorities to clean up. None of this is helping to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The Trump has been on a visit to West Point where the the US military train their officers. He gave a speech during which he seemed to have trouble holding a glass of water and had to use two hands, he then had to walk down a longish ramp presumably to meet some of the soldiers. He looked very uncomfortable stumbling along and very relieved when he reached the end, giving a little nod of his POTUS head. Some not very nice reports are suggesting that there is a serious problem with his brain and it’s time for a scan. A transplant might be more useful.
Shops are open tomorrow, I should try to have an early night. Sleep tight and don’t let the bug bite.