What is it with this point in lockdown that has encouraged so many of my friends to go for a major hair restructuring on the same day? Colour changes and style changes – okay, maybe this is just envy because I can’t take part.
For the duration of this lockdown I have agreed to share work with a colleague so we both have something to do and neither of us go stir crazy. One week on, one week off. It’s odd – he normally just covers for me when I have something to do that stops me working. So next week is my first week sitting around in the house with nothing to do for a week since, well, probably a few years. I’ve decided my first job will be to cut my hair.
Thanks to everybody giving me a warning about the ISS passing over – I got out in time to see it. I think my neighbour saw me outside looking up over their roof and might have thought I was trying to see where they were hiding their hand wash. Oops.
I was interesting hearing the interpretation of the Prime Minister’s letter today. He says it will get worse before it gets better. And the interpretation is that the restrictions will get worse. A spokesperson mentions 6 months and we will obviously have severe lockdown for 6 months. No – that isn’t what it says. When Boris says it will get worse he is telling us to get ready for that curve of infections and deaths to rise a lot further. When she said 6 months she also said she wanted to be clear that she didn’t think lockdown would last for 6 months.
It is odd that “bad” has been interpreted as the restrictions – maybe a sort of me, me, me attitude. I’m not sure, it can’t be the fear thing, because the increase in death rate would be the thing that would cause most fear. If we are not changing the curve then by next Sunday we will be seeing 800 deaths a day. That is what getting worse means. Keep an eye on that number, that is what tells us if our lockdown is working
Today I should have been the owner of a house in Spain. Unfortunately I have had trouble getting there to sign the papers. It makes me wonder when I will be able to get there and buy it, and then do all the fixing up and decorating. But this is life as we now know it. Still looking forward to someday relaxing in the sun.