Monthly Archives: April 2020

Isolation Day 35 – The limit on lockdown

When we were trained about a pandemic we were told to expect a lockdown of six weeks. The reasoning behind this was not some magic length of time that would be needed to get rid of the problem, but more … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 34 – To sleep….

One of the problems about a job that involves a 24/7 response is that sometimes it does occasionally mean working outside the normal Monday to Friday 9-5. Today was one of those days. 5 am (the other 5) on Sunday … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 33 – 42

Interesting listening to a couple of select committees today. One discussed the suggestion coming out of one USA study that we will need a degree of lockdown until 2022. Could we really live like this for another 2 years? People … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 32 – What time is it?

Saw a FB post about a new Phil Keaggy download. It includes a live version of Time. When I started isolation I took my watch off and have left it off. I know, I know, we are supposed to work … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 31 – Hitting the wall

Phew, I feel much better tonight after that quick rant. Sometimes you just need to let the pressure out, a pressure relief valve can be important. I have seen several friends hitting the wall this week. They have kept it … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 30 – What if this is the new normal

Interesting hearing Trump talk about getting back to the way things were as soon as possible after listing a long number of “friends” that will give him advice on that (and incidentally make a lot of money at the same … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 29 – Merry Christmas

I had this growing Christmas Eve feeling today – I am supposed to get my first doorstep milk delivery tomorrow. And with it comes a wonderful world of “extras”. What the extras are is still to be seen – the … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 28 – Stage 1 complete

I finished stage 1 of the photo sort today. All of my digital photos are now on a removable drive. All I need to do now is sort them in to some kind of order. Quite hard when you have … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 27 – Pride of place

Another wasp today – managed to avoid killing it as I encouraged it to move off. Really starting to think they are government controlled micro-robots. I notice today that people are starting to post videos of their pets jumping over … Continue reading

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Isolation Day 26 – Green shoots

Well the green shoots of the tomato seeds are showing, hopefully the peppers will follow. Fascinating watching the reaction of the shoots to the sun as it moves in the sky. Green shoots seems to be the in-word. We are … Continue reading

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