Have I really not posted a single word during Easter weekend? I can hardly believe how fast the days pass. Second one in lockdown although I think it’s been easier than last year’s with the start of easing. Good Friday I played at being a couch potato lazing around and watching tv as I wasn’t feeling too good after my second dose of Covid vaccine. Saturday I went to visit Margaret and David in their beach hut and had a very tasty afternoon tea there. Five of us altogether so still within the rule of six. Easter Sunday my first BBQ of the year at Elena and Andrew’s eaten in the garden in the sunshine. The girls made some delicious treats for desert and the Tanners visited too. A nice family get together. Oops, nearly forgot, they have an eight week old cocker spaniel puppy, very cute, mostly white with black eye patches and freckles.
There’s not been much news to be fair although I did read that a man got bitten on the bum by an 8ft long python when he was sitting on the toilet. I believe it happened in Singapore. Someone pulled it out afterwards and disposed of it. And in Dubai a group of women have been arrested for posing naked on a balcony in the upmarket Marina district. I’ve been there with Elena and I can’t imagine how they thought they would get away with that one. Apparently it was part of an Israeli publicity stunt – no mention of what they were publicizing so we leave that to your imagination. The girls though were mainly Ukranian and either teenagers or in their early twenties so they probably had little idea of what they were letting themselves in for. They will probably spend a few months in prison. I just hope they got paid up front but I don’t suppose they did.
Travel is still not allowed and quarantine is supposedly in place for visitors. However it seems that 8000 tourists arrive every day – that’s 56k a week – and there’s no sign that they’re quarantining although they’ve signed a paper saying that they will. They can put down any fictitious address they like and no further proof is required. Still, it seems they haven’t come to Bournemouth because the town has been pretty empty this Easter weekend. Durdle Door had an influx of idiots again with some of them climbing up the rock with enormous back packs which contained parachutes to help them on their way down. Didn’t work too well as the coastguards still had to be called out. What will the summer bring?
I must mention the lovely Dr Jill Biden before finishing. She’s in trouble over the pond for wearing fishnet tights which are not deemed suitable for the First Lady. Ha! they looked pretty good to me and not even fishnet, just very nice black patterned tights – or maybe stockings? I shall definitely be getting some. I do hope Dr FLOTUS doesn’t back down. Hey, let’s be careful out there. 💤😘😘💤