Day Seventy-Eight - Hot, hot, hot.

I don't think any records are to be broken but it does feel incredibly hot today. So much so that I've been coming indoors quite a bit. I also decided I would try and tidy the garden shed a bit as that isoutside but out of the Sun. It used to be an annual job. I literally emptied the shed of everything, went through it all, sorted it all and put it back. That's beyond me physically now I'm afraid. Part of the problem is that I absorbed so much of mum and dad's stuff into my shed when we sold mum's house. A lot of things have been with us through childhood and neither my brother or sister were keen to see them go. Neither of them had space to take them themselves So it was left to me. At the time it didn't seem like a problem. It is a bit of a bugger now! But overall I'm quite satisfied because it meant I could tidy up outside a bit and put things that I'd left out on the patio into the shed.

In spite of the lockdown I still don't know where the time goes. It's gone 4 o'clock now and I don't know where the day has been! In a way that's good because I think it will be much worse if I found the time to be dragging but I end up asking myself what on earth have I actually achieved? I guess the shed took up a fair bit of time.

It's also the first day of a new month. I have this silly little ritual where I change the filter in my water jug. I change all the calendars. And I water the plants. (Although many of them need watering more as it's summer.) Then I check on who's got a birthday in June. But it's giving me a bit of a conundrum this year. Because a lot of people aren't wanting stuff through the post because of having to wait 72 hours before you can open it in case it's contaminated with the virus. So I don't know whether I'm doing the wrong or the right thing in sending cards? My sister-in-law's mum is in her mid 90s now and it's her birthday Friday or Sunday I can't remember which. I was going to send a card in good time so that it can be left 72 hours but I'm not sure she knows to do that.

Today was the day that some children return to school. I've seen a few in their uniforms. Although children are low risk for coronavirus I still think it poses a threat broadly speaking. I also saw that IKEA opened And the queues looked ridiculous. Why do people have to go today? Now they've opened. they're going to stay open, stagger it, go another day for goodness sake. Today is also the day that now you can have six people from different households to meet with you, outside and socially distanced. And people who have been shielding can go outside. I want to how many people actually will. I saw somebody on social media say that the only parents who were going to send their children back to school today were those who have been ignoring the lockdown anyway! i.e. All those who flocked to the beaches and the parks and ignored social distancing. It will be interesting to see what the stats are showing in a couple of weeks time. I still think the government secretly are pushing their herd immunity theory. I sometimes think the whole lockdown thing was paying lip service to the rest of the world and the country's anxiety. I don't think they've ever swerved from that initial belief. It's being so cheerful that keeps me going?!?!