Day Seventy-Seven - Rubbish and Snakes and Shielders

Managed a modicum of sleep and also managed a reasonable walk this morning. However the walk threw up two opposing lockdown, pandemic points of view. Captured by my, not terribly effective, phone camera. Here is the first.

Utterly disgraceful. You can see fish and chip wrappers, fast food wrappers, bottles, cans. Why can't people take their rubbish home with them when they can see there is no room for it?  And what are people doing buying all this food in the middle of a pandemic. A friend of mine suggested that the situation might improve now that people can have up to 6 people to visit them in their garden. I'm not optimistic.

And from the ridiculous to the sublime this is what I saw also this morning.

What a delightful little initiative. I'm going to see if I can find a stone but unfortunately I don't think I have any paint that I could decorate it with but I'm keen to take part.

There's been massive fear mongering on social media today. People are saying that ICU workers have been told that there will be a second wave in July and the funeral directors have been told to prepare for a mass of deaths in August. This really doesn't help matters at all, I don't think. The other big news is that people who have been shielding i.e people who are extremely vulnerable with underlying health conditions have now been told they can go outside. I am not sure what to think anymore. My instinct is to carry on as I have been. Remain in the initial stages of lockdown. So I'll exercise once a day. Stay at home and continue to buy what I need online as far as possible. I will continue with my sanitisation programme too. A senior politician has said we can't stay in lockdown forever. No of course we can't. But you can't come out of lockdown just because you can't stay in it forever! That isn't a reason to come out of lockdown. We are still at risk.

Let's move onto more pleasant things. Life's been grim the last couple of days. How about the music that I've been listening to on my walks? Stephen Wilson - Transience. Ray La Montagne - Supernova. Madeleine Peyroux -  Standing on the Rooftop. George Ezra - Wanted on Voyage. Richard Thompson - Best Of. Quite an eclectic collection and I really enjoyed listening to them.

I have read nineteen books this month too. I still find living in someone else's world preferable to living in my own.

Sunday, the end of another week. One week seems to merge into another now. What a weird existence this is. Let's see what next week brings. I'm going to be very cautious.