Walks have been curtailed quite a lot - so feeling sluggish and more tired - weirdly.
Slowly working our way through or new Marvel jigsaw.
Yesterday (21st June) was Father's Day - so all 3 of us went for a very pleasant drive to Endon to visit my dad. We had to stay in the back garden and my dad chatted to us from the conservatory at the back of Marjorie's bungalow. Tried to chat - although M did interrupt a lot to tell us how marvellous her family are and to utter racist threats against Chine - as they have obviously trying to take over the world by making this coronavirus in a lab and unleashing it on the world. Didn't really explain how it works when their own population were the first badly affected. She still wants to nuke the whole country though.
I had bought my dad some Eat Your Drink novelty jellies. They are made from whisky - which he likes - and are proper strong. "Eat 5 and you can't drive!" Also came with socks with CHEERS on them!
This week is predicted to be another heatwave - at last! I have a new fence panel in the back yard waiting to be cut to size and installed and thee is some more fence along the bottom to paint in my cool green colour.
Hopefully it will get done!
Last Friday I had a Zoom get-together with the box office team from the theatre. Mandy (manager) didn't turn up until the last 5 minutes - and Linds seem to try at the very end but failed. Talked to Taz, Lou, Emily and Pete though - and Kay (who is marking person and Pete's sister) Taz says she's been doing nothing during lockdown - apart from all our quizzes! Lou has got herself an extra job at Tesco - she works 2 days week 5am-10am putting together online orders for delivery. She was very rpoud to have met her deadlines everyday. She has also designed and built a wardrobe from scratch - which looked really good.
Pete seems to have a grown a beard and Emily had to spend the money she had saved to buy a pole (for her pole dancing practice) on a Shark hoover as her old hoover packed up. She has also become addicted to crossword puzzle books.
I asked for people's Netflix suggestions - and Pete's wife, Lisa piped up from somewhere in his room about a load of true crime ones. Not sue fi they are my cup of tea though. Taz had watched Afterlife - and loved it though it was so sad. it must have been a hard watch for her as she lost her dad just at the start of this pandemic. (Not Covid though) I really rate Ricky Gervais now - fantastic series. He is writing series 3 right now.
Laura and I finished Dead to me - which was brilliant, funny, sad and surprising all the way though. Now waiting for series 3 of that too. Loved both characters and their complicated friendship!
Emily did say that all was well with the theatre and its cashflow (not sure how - what cashflow?) Today (Monday) they are starting to rip all the old seats out and the builders have set up a "wellness tent" on the car park for their workers welfare. Not sure how they are working - hardly anyone is allowed in the building. So the theatre will look fabulous soon - but who knows when it will reopen>
Bojo is meant to be making another announcement today about the 2m distancing rule - which businesses are clamouring to be reduced so they can open and make money. However, it is only meant to be safe if we have a track and trace system in place. The government have abandoned the "world-beating app" they were testing in the Isle of Wight - as it doesn't work with the Apple system. Not sure if they are going to use the one that does work - made by Google and Apple - that the rest of the world is using.
Most non-essential shops are now open - although we haven't been tempted to go out at all. No news on pubs and restaurants yet - although they are hoping the proposed date of July 6th could happen. It will depend on the 2m rule though. it had been suggested for that date if they had tables outside and people ordered via an app rather than crowding around a busy indoor bar/counter.
We shall see...
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