The Spillway, Chasewater

A last day of relative freedom, now that we are being moved into tier 4 from midnight tonight.  There was a certain inevitability and it was really how wide ranging the restrictions would spread.  I never thought I'd say you were lucky if you were in tier 3!

In other news the Oxford/Astra-Zeneca vaccine has been given approval; along with a slight change in the strategy for its roll-out, now placing more importance on giving the first of the two doses and leaving a longer gap of 12 weeks before the second dose is administered.  The first dose is reckoned to give about 70% protection and it seems a reasonable decision to try and vaccinated more people more quickly, which is possible with the greater gap between injections.

The Government also passed the motion to accept the trade agreement with the EU.

This is a path along the embankment that holds in water in the spillway from the local reservoir.  Water was flowing over the outflow from the dam, something quite rare but utterly predictable after all of the recent rain.  The light was fickle, only allowing a brief period of colour on the horizon.