Spotlight on Kings Langley

I've decided to do a series of a sort of my home village.  Given tonight's announcement I'm clearly going to be continuing to see more of it in 21 than anywhere else in the world.

Is this lockdown 3 or 4?

Monday was well - Monday.  Back to work with a big stinking bang.  

Started with a walk with Phoebe to the park where she played with Wilf, Poppy and Dolly.  She was a bit weird when coming under the bridge on the way home - reluctant to go under it which was annoying but equally worrying as I'd hate to think she has gotten a fright from something.  Steve said she was a horror on their walk and he is convinced she is about to come into her first season.  We want to let her have one season before having her spayed (apparently it's better for their maturity and healthy development into adulthood so we are going with it).  My worry is if we are in Alert level 5, will a vet do the deed if needs be?  We are now both watching her like a hawk.

While she was in the kitchen this morning Rosie wouldn't come in and we think she decided to use a plant pot in the living room as her new bathroom as she couldn't get out the backdoor and through her flap.  The plant is now outside and we've had a major clean up of the area.

Puppies are great but they do need supervision and so shutting her in the kitchen when I go upstairs to dress to stop her chasing the cats in the morning isn't working anymore - the cats got used to full access when we were all having lie ins.

Wow - sorry for the boring cat/ dog chat - that is pretty much the highlights/ lowlights of my day.

Work was *meh*.  We have a new CTO/ big boss in our department and I suspect there's going to be a lot of competitiveness for brownie points and I don't think I can be bothered with it - it's going to be the downfall of us all unless we start acting and behaving like a team.  

After work I went for a walk around the village - I've been passing this station on my runs and decided I wanted to photograph it and a series of other places around the village - hoping that gives me motivation to go out for walks, take my camera and try to document this year a bit more fully.

When I was back we watching dinner and BoJos speech.

The first sentence pissed me off.  Immediately he blames the new strain.  I wonder if he realises that viruses are more likely to mutate the more they are spread so perhaps the sheet incompetence telling the nation "get back to work, eat out to help out etc" might actually have been part of it the continued spread and increased chance of mutations.  

Another article that made me furious today was the people caught taking pictures of empty wards in hospitals and saying this is proof of a hoax and conspiracy on the virus not being real.  The idiots were photographing outpatient wards - those appointments are being done remotely as much as possible and anything non urgent is not being prioritised.  And what kind of person hangs about hospitals annoying those on the front line to prove it's not real......seriously - get a life.  Wish I had that much time on my hands.

This is going to be a ranty blipyear for me, I fear.