Day One Hundred and Twenty Eight - Covid 'here forever'

I knew there was a reason I avoid the news. Admittedly this was one of the tabloids but some Oxford professor has said that this pathogen is here forever and it isn't going anywhere. And he cited the comparison with polio and how they've been trying to eradicate polio and still haven't done so. I suppose the only cheer I take from that is that polio is far less prevalent than ever it was years ago. The most immediate problem seems to be winter where the Chief medical Officer Professor Chris Witty says a surge of COVID-19 in winter is a really serious concern.  I was also reading of potential food shortages because of Brexit. None of it has put me in a very good mood today.

So poo to the news. Sometimes being childish just gets you through the day.

On the other hand I have washed the heavy lounge curtains, dried them and hang them back up at the windows, washed and cleaned the filters in my vacuum cleaner, done some deadheading in the garden until my hands hurt so much I couldn't use them anymore.  I've been reading a book for the rest of the day. And it was pleasant enough and quiet enough to read the bulk of it in the garden.

I did go for my walk today and I foraged for a few ripe blackberries. They were right at the end of the road where I look over at the ruined castle. I didn't have anything to put them in but I had a handkerchief.  I picked some and carefully carried them home in that. It was a blue spotted hanky not a red spotted hanky but hey, let's not get picky. I'll take along a little polythene bag tomorrow and see if there are any more. I don't know if it's stealing? I suppose it might be but it seems to be on no man's land. At that time in the morning I don't think anyone is going to spot me and if they want to throw me in jail and clap me in irons  for a few scrumped blackberries then so be it. I'll come quietly. officer.

If there is no blog post tomorrow it's because I've been done for blackberrying.