My walk this morning This is what unlimited exercise looks like in a pandemic lockdown after twenty four hours. Or maybe it's meeting one friend with social distancing? Does the word 'essential' spring to mind at all here? Not for me it didn't. I was disgusted.
Controversies and confusion still remains over the business of who can work and who can't. For example it seems it's okay for gardeners and window cleaners to work if they can access property without having to come through the house and maintain a social distance at all times. But some domestic cleaners believe that they should be able to work now. A school friend of mine was approached by her cleaner asking if she could come back to work. My friend said, 'Sorry, no. If my own daughter is not allowed to visit the house then I'm not going to have somebody else come into it.' That same cleaner said that several of her employers had been paying her throughout the lockdown. My friend was unimpressed but also made to feel somehow ungenerous? She has done her bit though, more than many and more than myself. Supporting neighbours who have been bereaved because of COVID-19. She's been phoning people who are on their own and isolating. I felt very sorry for her.
I was able to join in the old school girls WhatsApp group chat the other day. They were talking about books. Well, it's a no brainer for me! People were putting forward their top tens. So I put forward mine. Got a couple of responses. By and large I don't feel I'm very popular member of the group. Especially since the early morning thumbs up thing. I forget to do it some days and I don't think they even notice.
I had a better day outside today. Went for a very early walk and I was in the garden eating breakfast by 630 this morning. And I sat there reading and drinking coffee till 9. I figured that if it got noisy and unpleasant out there at least I would've had a couple of hours. But it's been relatively quiet today. I even ate my lunch out there. Can't remember the last time I did that. And I mowed the grass. But that's all I've done because I've learnt my lesson from previous times. Unless you count re-potting a spider plant? But I'm just wondering where everybody has gone?
For what must be some years now there's been a hole underneath the fence from my garden to my neighbours. It was dug by a badger. And it's been a little subway for much of the wildlife round here for years. Initially the neighbours tried and tried to block it up. But the badger kept opening it up again. So they gave up. They have two transmitters in their garden to deter wildlife. They're not really interested in the environment or ecology. They paved most of the garden and they have a postage stamp piece of artificial grass. Says it all doesn't it? But today they've dug and planted and blocked the gap up again. I shall be interested to see what happens. Will the badger undo all their work? Or will he simply find a new place to dig. It doesn't bother me having the badger do that. It's his world to, not just mine. I think man is the only creature that actually believes he owns any of this godforsaken rock.
I've avoided all updates on coronavirus today so I don't know what's going on. I doubt that anything much has changed. I think everyone is moving towards ending lockdown whether it's official or not! Life seems to be going on outside and returning to normal and more. Scary.
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