Now here’s an interesting fact from the coronavirus lockdown, did you know that 84,000 kittens could be born as vets are not neutering cats? That’s a lot of cats and as they can get pregnant from as young as four months and each cat might have given birth to four kittens, that 84,000 could soon become a lot more. Now having picked up this little bit of hot news for you it got me wondering if a baby boom is likely at any time from the end of this year, well from Christmas actually as lockdown started on 23rd March. All that working from home, pubs shut and lets face it, the tele has been pretty bloody awful. Take my word for it another generation of baby boomers is on its way.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I was invited over to my daughter Elena’s for dinner. Every time I pop in the house is a little bit more together and is looking lovely. I sat in the covered patio area with Elizabeth and Alice while Elena finished cooking, it’s a perfect spot to sit and relax. Andrew was watching Bournemouth at home football match and getting very excited. I, of course, didn’t even know it was on but as it’s local I was sort of interested. Sadly, it was disappointing with a 2.0 lose for our local team. Dinner though was delicious as was the company and the girls looked lovely and are very entertaining.
One of the first post virus planes to Spain was from Manchester to Alicante with, it seems, the majority of passengers heading for Benidorm. I’ve never quite understood why people want to go there when Alicante is so much nicer. Still the truth of the matter is that if everyone stopped there instead of travelling on it probably wouldn’t be so attractive. When I hitchhiked to Spain in the early sixties with two friends, down through France, over the Pyrenees, through Andorra (the first place I tried eating snails), along the Costa Brava and eventually reaching Alicante, we liked it so much we just stayed put. There were hardly any tourists there in those days but as it was a shipping port, there were plenty of sailors. It was there that I tasted for the first time real Spanish food and I loved it. Sailors weren’t too bad either. I’ve always had a soft spot for that city, it’s well worth a visit.
As we are all well aware, lockdown hasn’t brought about a reduction in crime in fact, apart from shoplifting for obvious reasons, there has been an increase in home and car breakins. A burglar in Swindon, Wiltshire was trying his luck in an empty property last week when his leg got stuck in the window. He must have poked his leg through the partly opened window when it got jammed and he was left hanging upside down on the outside. He had to use his mobile phone to call the fire brigade to get rescued. They turned him over to the lads in blue. Don’t let it keep you awake. Nighty night. 😴💤😴