Monday 19 October
One hell of a day. Coronavirus complications a-plenty as we experience the app pinging. It’s a challenge to keep things operating, business as normal, to the backdrop of this world-wide mess. Wales have announced that they will basically raise the drawbridge on Friday imposing a full lockdown until 9th November.
This is at the same time that Ireland contemplates a possible national lockdown too. Scotland lockdown the central belt including the two main cities, whilst Northern Ireland strated their school closure and deeper measures from today.
Then there’s England. Doing its own thing and trying, valiantly I suppose, to focus on local restrictions through the three tier system. The government chose to ignore the scientific advice of SAGE three weeks ago to impose a short, sharp ‘circuit breaker’. Public opinion is supporting a countrywide, temporary lockdown. We will see what happens but time ticks by and the numbers go up.
Birds come back to raise my spirits as always. This weekend a mad rush of twitchers (I don’t get that weird world) descended upon north Norfolk to Stiffkey to get a glimpse of a Roufus Bush Chat. It must have veered off course and ended up in the UK on its way south.
I played football again tonight with my son and others. We both went for a ball and collided, he stood solid, I fell like an old man. I felt laboured tonight but still loved it.
The Bald Birder 