Did I mention that I had my vaccine jab last Thursday. All very efficient and didn’t take a moment with the longest bit having to sit down for 15 minutes afterwards to make sure I didn’t get a reaction. I had the Pfizer one and will be getting a call to go back in 11 weeks. The latest news today is that more people have been vaccinated in Britain than have tested positive for Covid since the beginning of the pandemic. I guess we could add to that the people who have had the illness and therefore have some immunity. Trouble is, how long will the immunity last in either case? Public Health England thinks it gives 83% protection for at least 5 months.
Covid is rife in prisons with outbreaks in 65% of all prisons in England and Wales. A large proportion of staff are off either with the virus or self isolating because of family members being positive. Lawyers are asking for a pause on court cases as staff, jurors and 69 judges have been struck down with coronavirus. A difficult venue to control I should think.
And in case you’re interested, in China a batch of ice-cream has tested positive for Covid-19. Nearly 5000 boxes of the desert which had been produced locally have been found to contain the virus. A virologist here said that because the product is made with fat and stored at low temperatures it’s easy for the virus to survive. He also said that it’s likely down to poor hygiene at the plant. I have to wonder what will happen to the managers at that factory in communist China. I don’t suppose they’ll be sleeping in their own bed for much longer.
In Australia a man using a drone filmed a lake between an estuary and the sea and as the water runs out it formed a shape in the sand which looks like the tree of life. Over here an 81 year old man has shown films which he has made of a similar phenomenon in Norfolk and Suffolk. He has several examples of tributaries as the tides go in and out in Great Yarmouth and patterns in the mudflats along the River Blyth all looking like the branches of tress. Mike Page says he never gets tired of looking at nature’s art from his plane and that you never get to see the same picture twice. He has taken hundreds of images for his archive and for people to enjoy.
Have you ever left anything behind in a hotel? I have, just ordinary things like an electric toothbrush, pair of shoes (new), items of clothing, a hat which I hung on a hook on the wall and etc etc. The Travelodge in Manchester has listed some more bizarre items left there over the last year: A vera Wang wedding dress, two first class tickets to Vegas, a script for a play, a didgeridoo and a framed Manchester City kit. Also during lockdown several medical items left by hospital staff using the hotel. Hey, remember, let’s be careful out there. 😴💤💤😴