Latest news is that anyone arriving or returning from 30 different high risk nations will need to quarantine for 10 days on their arrival. This rule will become effective from 15th February. The rest of us have been in complete lockdown for a month already so why wasn’t this rule enforced at the same time? It seems that just as our lockdown and the massive vaccination programme might be having some effect on the pandemic, visitors could be bringing in a new strain of the virus and will continue to do so for the next 10 days. Same as the first lockdown last March, planes continued to fly in carrying an unknown number of virus carriers. Everyone knew that international travel was the main culprit.
Nobody wants Chris Whitty’s job and that probably includes Chris himself. I’m sure he has been confronted many times by people in the street who feel they could give him some advice and frequently do. This week it’s been the turn of a teenage boy who goaded him while recording on his smart phone. He then posted the incident onto social media and became the recipient of negative comments himself. Mr Whitty who has a string of eminent job titles was asked what he thought of the teenager in an interview. He replied that the boy was probably just showing off and that he would grow up to be a fine young man. The teenager’s mother didn’t agree and made her son record an apology. She also confiscated his playstation. Well done that mum. And well done Chris Whitty.
A married couple have also hit the headlines for swearing on TV. Oh dear, what is the world coming to? It was on last evening’s Grand Design when the couple were on air transforming a derelict 17th century flour mill in Cornwall into a luxury home. Well of course Kevin McCloud was there poking his nose in and giving advice, but it wasn’t his money being spent, was it? Now I haven’t yet seen this episode so I’m going on what I’ve read in the news. Kevin came up with one too many suggestions and the couple told him they had saved many of the original features. The wife added that she didn’t think an outsider was in a position to make a judgement and “really she didn’t give a s**t what he thought”. About time someone said something to smirking Kevin. I’ll definitely get this on catch up.
A Shropshire cow named Posh Spice has been sold at auction for the highest amount ever paid for a heifer in the UK and possibly in Europe. The farmer owners were more than a little surprised when the amount reached £262,000 which is double the previous record. I have to wonder what VB thought when she found she had a heifer named after her? The farmer said he had wondered if the name was copyrighted. If it is he can expect VB to come after some of that dosh. Hey people, let’s be careful out there. 😴💤😴