Day Forty Two - Optical Illusions and Boris Returns

I experienced something weird this morning. Given that I follow the same route every day for my walk the outlook is the same. Not that I grow tired of it. The estuary can be very soothing and quite beautiful particularly when the sunshine is on the water. But this morning everything that usually seems quite distant seemed much much closer. It was as if everything was in walking distance and I could reach it all quite easily. Of course I couldn't. It must've been a trick of the light but it was palpable and curiously unnerving

Our prime minister, Boris Johnson, is back at work. I wonder what that will mean for the country? I feel that his experience of coronavirus must surely affect his views on how dangerous it is.  'The UK is at the moment of maximum risk in the coronavirus outbreak, Boris Johnson has said, as he urged people not to lose patience with the lockdown.' He is saying there will be a refinement of the lockdown. Hmm, I am wondering what those refinements will entail. I probably won't do much different. I still fear a second, deadlier wave if we exit lockdown too soon. 

In comparison New Zealand claim to have successfully stopped transmission of covid-19 effectively eliminating the virus. Bold claims. They may have stopped transmission but eliminated the virus? I don't think so. From what I've seen it's a pesky little blighter that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I've admired Jacinda Ardern but I hope this isn't  complacency. 

I've been a bit apathetic today. I've spent the bulk of the day reading, some outside as the threatened cloudy day has been punctuated by sunshine but the forecast for the next few days suggests a great deal of rain. Goodness knows the garden needs it. But I don't know what I will do about my walk. The forecast shows an 80/90% chance of rain at the time I go out in the morning. Will I brave it? Get myself soaked through? One thing does occur to me. People are likely to stay indoors if it rains and that might mean less people about if I want to go to a shop. I'm running low on my preferred breakfast cereal which I get at the health food shop. They make it up themselves. It is delicious. It has oat germ, oat bran, malted wheat flakes, seedless raisins and, what they call LSA mix, linseed, almond and sunflower seeds all ground up. The big plus is it's sugar free which is quite hard to find in most breakfast cereals especially stuff like Kellogg's. 

Quiet day today on the communications front. I think I was all 'phoned out' after yesterday. Given that I'm not really a very talkative person  it was a marathon day! Sometimes I feel like I'm merely an observer of life now. I watch from my window as people go by doing their 'essential' outings. I see people in their gardens DIYing as if their lives depended on it. I can only imagine what lockdown is like for people who don't live alone. I think I'm talking to myself more and I'm talking out loud more. I think there's a tendency to do that anyway when you live alone and you spend a great deal of time alone. There's a kind of need to break the silence. Or maybe that's just me!!