Bluebells

It must be Saturday as Gavin joined me for a walk with Xena this morning, as he wasn't working. Day 33 of lockdown....the same routine and it feels like this is how our life will be forever.

After the walk Gavin went to Waitrose to get some groceries - I tend to go once a week and he also goes once a week and that seems to work well in supplying food to feed the masses family. 

Gavin told me about another bluebell woods he had come across near our house on one of his early morning runs, so after lunch we walked to the corner shop to get some peppers (which Waitrose did not have and we need them for dinner), and then we walked a bit further to see these bluebells. They were magnificent! The good thing about lockdown and walking from home every day is that I have now discovered two bluebell woods near the our house that I never knew existed, as in previous years I either drove quite some distance to a well known bluebell area in Surrey, or went to a National Trust property. Now I won't be doing that again when I know we have our own local woods that are so beautiful.

Tomorrow Gavin was meant to be running in the London Marathon, which has now been postponed to October. Similarly, Wimbledon has also been cancelled this year, the first time since WW2. We were also invited to Ascot for the first time this year (in June) but that too has been cancelled. I feel sorry for those who enjoy watching sport on TV as there is nothing new to watch. At the beginning of this crisis when the medical advisers to the government said it would be a good outcome if the number of deaths did not exceed 20,000 I thought they had made a mistake and meant 2,000 - that was when we still believed China had incurred a total of around 3,000 deaths. Today we have exceeded that number. At least we are nearing - or have reached - the peak. Gavin spoke to his mother in SA today and she said they are expecting to reach the peak in August! 

The future looks very different now, we are all pinning our hopes on a vaccine, and it may not even work. Scientists are not certain that people who have developed antibodies after recovering from the virus are protected against a second infection.