Tomorrow is the big day, restaurants, pubs, cinemas, hotels and others will be able to open to the public and more people who are not from the same household will be able to meet up. Some public places like libraries will be open as well as community centres. outdoor playgrounds and gyms will also be ok. It will however be against the law for groups of more than 30 people to gather. Funny that, if I gathered together all my children, stepchildren, grandchildren and great grandchildren there would be more than 30 so the next family reunion will have to wait. I wonder if there will be any additions by the next time we meet.
Someone else who will have to wait is the lone ranger aka the POTUS. He planned to go to watch some fireworks at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota tonight but the Oglala Sioux leaders voted against the visit and the display. The Oglala President Julian Bear Runner (great name) wrote to the Trump to explain that the land had been signed over to the the Great Sioux nation in two different treaties in 1851 and 1868. Furthermore the sovereign owners have to give permission for anyone to enter the territory and they didn’t give said permission to the lone ranger aka Trump. Well there’s a right todo. National Parks had banned fireworks for the last few years due to the risk of wild fires. Trump cancelled the ban and said ‘what can burn, it’s all rock?’. Apart from all the above, the Trump seems to have once again forgotten that there is a pandemic raging in his country.
Like many others I have found it difficult to find anything to watch on tv during lockdown, apart from repeats and the excruciatingly boring people at home doing so called shows or even more boring ‘how they spend their time during lockdown’. I’ve recently taken to watching Schitts Creek on Netflix. The original review that I read said it needed to be watched through a few episodes before realising what a little gem it is. I have become addicted, the episodes are short so I always want to watch more, the characters are great and the acting brilliant. It is also often very funny. The mother who thought her daughter was pregnant just told her family in a very emotional voice ‘I have to say that financially and psychologically I find this situation absolutely intolerable’. And so say all of us mums. (Not really, kids).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I can’t believe it’s gone on this long and I can’t believe I’m still writing and still counting. One hundred long days. We’ve survived this far and we will survive a little longer and maybe now I can get out and once again become a lady that lunches. In the meantime, nighty night.