New Furniture

I took delivery today of some painted furniture from Oak Furniture Land. I'd ordered it early Nov when things were still looking reasonably ok. I'd paid for delivery to the room of my choice, but got them to leave the boxes outside the patio doors instead. The items are a lot smaller than the boxes suggest!. It took two hours to take off all the packaging, get the items in place and clear everything away. The tallboy is damaged, so that was 1 hr 45 mins on the phone, only the last 15 mins being actually talking to someone. I decided to get a refund as whilst it fitted in ok, I thought that item was a bit too much, so it worked out ok. Another item had some small damage on the back and I got £50 off for that. My furniture sliders came in very useful again, it makes moving furniture so easy in a bungalow, you just push it. 

Day 306 / Day 11 of Lockdown 3 (for my record only)
UK deaths up 1,280 to 87,295 (revised basis), with 55,761 new cases (worryingly going in the wrong direction), 37,282 patients in hospital (a new record), 3,672 on ventilation and 4,262 new admissions. Deaths with Covid on the death certificate are now 102k. 3.2m have now received their first dose of the vaccine. The R rate is now 1.2 to 1.3 with a daily infection growth rate of 2% to 5% (looks out of date to me, data looks a tad better). Globally deaths pass 2m in just over a year, with 94m cases to date. Deaths in the US pass 400,000. In order to keep out new variants, all UK travel corridors will close from 4am on Monday. Travellers will need a valid negative Covid test, a completed passenger locator form and must self isolate for 10 days (can do another test at 5 days to shorten this time). There will be more spot checks to ensure people are self-isolating. New laws are being introduced for shoppers and staff in Wales as there is 'significant evidence' that Covid is being spread in supermarkets. Blood plasma has not reduced deaths at any level of illness among patients, although data is still being examined to look at sub groups. The ONS reports a 2.6% fall in output in November. Insurers have been told to pay out on business interruption insurance to tens of thousands of small businesses that claimed and were initially refused.