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Friday, 10 July 2020

Taking up suggestions .... and my 'lock-down'

Some friends (well, three actually !) have suggested I continue with my blog, so here we are, almost a year on from my last entry.   Such a lot has happened, both here in Wales, the UK, and the world.   The word on everyone's lips is 'Coronavirus' .... or Covid-19 .... the 19 referring (I think) to the year the pandemic started.   

So I'll start with that; here in the UK we have been in 'lock-down' for over three months. For me, this started at the beginning of March, for I had been in contact with someone with an undiagnosed hacking cough .... so from then until now  (next Monday actually, when Wales flings open its doors and I can go five miles into England !) I have been in 'lock-down.  That'll be four and a half months in total.  

During these four and a half months I have been reading books about the Black Death (cheerful stuff), plus other books; I have been gardening and growing masses of veggies and fruit; doing never ending jig-saws; cross-words; going for daily walks in the local woods and along the lanes.  I visit the supermarket every three weeks, masked, at 'pensioners happy hour' (7.30 a.m.)  I take masses of photos while I am out and in the house, and in fact of everything I'm doing .... 

....  my favourite jig-saw so far ...






... and 'socially distanced' ducks in the supermarket car park



... my cat celebrating V. E. day


....and my cooker went 'phut' so I had to buy a new                                             one or live on salads for several weeks !

     ... Mr and Mrs Bullfinch eating dandelion seeds                

  ... ugh !


... garden produce ... sugar snap peas, broad beans and courgettes.  


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So that is a brief photographic summary of my lock-down.  (I still haven't worked out how to properly space and place photos.)

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