Feest Isolation Days – 27 November
Tiers were announced yesterday for our coming out of Lockdown, and, as predicted, Bristol is in the top tier. Tier Three. What that means in practice for us, is that we won’t be heading back to Exmoor for a week’s holiday. Nor will I be having my increasingly greying hair coloured anytime soon. Oh well.
We are resigned to all things Covid related and have our hopes set on the Spring as a time when things will begin to change.
It does look like Christmas is going to be another jolly time for the virus. As Boris said, “Tis the Season to be Jolly Careful.” Maybe he has got his mojo back.
There are still so many people who seem to think that they can let rip. The rules say that up to three households MAY meet for the five days over Christmas. But it isn’t a target. We have already spoken to the kids and friends and have decided we will be having Christmas on our own. No matter, we usually do!
The what are we doing for Christmas conversation is going to be a difficult discussion for many parents with adult kids. They want to visit. With their kids – the grandchildren. And it is legal! It is causing a bit of bother for several of our friends who, like us, are listening to the scientists rather than to those who are unwilling to acknowledge that we still have to be very careful. That said, the local news interviewed about half a dozen people in Weston Super Mare and every person said they would be having Christmas at home on their own without anyone else attending. The reporter said they couldn’t find anyone who intended to have Christmas with other people. Many many people are being sensible. In Exeter, the first Nightingale hospital in the country is set to begin taking patients because the hospital is overwhelmed. And they are in Tier Two!
The numbers of cases have not increased following this lockdown of nearly a month, but they aren’t falling. It’s a start but not an end. We can see the end but it isn’t with us yet
Although we seem to be in the final months of this virus it isn’t over until the whistle blows for full time. If we were a rugby team (which we will watch again this weekend…Hurrah!) the other team – Covid 19 – might just want to rack up points to prove one. They know they can’t win, but they aren’t going to stop playing until someone jabs us in the arm with a vaccine and then our side will score.
Just as well the scientists are on our team!
Have a great weekend and if you are in England, whatever Tier you are in, please be safe. It’s a great time of year to snuggle up, watch some rugby, read, play solitaire…you know the drill!
With love
Kathy x