Social Distancing

If there's one thing Edinburgh is not short of, it's green spaces near where people live. This is 10 minutes or so walk from our house, a currently unused golf course. The Figgate Park is even closer. Another golf course ten minutes in the other direction. And we don't live somewhere that's unusual. So I really don't understand why folk, including a couple in our street, have to take their dogs in cars and vans to go and walk somewhere else. 

Out early (off work for the day, which feels weird in the circumstances) to go shopping for us, as well as my friend Ken, who is in the vulnerable group, and stuck in his flat in the centre of town. More stressful than the last time a couple of weeks ago - no busier in store, but people are starting to get complacent I think. Lots of not following the arrows on the ground, and a few people coming too close, or picking up loads of stuff to check it, then putting it back on the shelves (including one guy inspecting the peanut butter jars at the front to determine, presumably, smooth from crunchy, then selected the jar to take home from the back.... Then the couple, with a kid in a buggy, who left the trolley on one side of the aisle, while they stared intently at stuff on the other side, leaving no option but to stand like a lemon and wait).