Day 1152

Aka Monday 23^rd March 2020

And today should have been back to work, except, ‘cos of Covid-19, I’m home working…although I still had to go into work to pick up my laptop and notes, and I did help out a little sorting the post, which has gone down a noticeable amount…when I got back home I tried to log on, but the system for letting you do so, was so oversubscribed I couldn’t get on. All in all, I spent about seven hours waiting to log on and ten minutes actually working (and it was only ten minutes because I couldn’t log on till 9pm!!!)

…as I was waiting, I read ‘Flimsy’s Mewsings’:

…created by Rachael Smith ‘Flimsy’s Mewsings’ is a funny, heart-warming and uplifting read, full of helpful advice and tips on avoiding and dealing with stress and anxiety and modern life in general. 10/10. These are some of my favourite bits:

 …and started reading ‘Joe Country’,  the sixth Slow Horse/Slough House novel, just a few pages in and I’m shocked already. Within these first few pages we find out about that two Slow Horses have been killed. And yes, it could be misdirection, but the thought that Louisa or River or Shirley could be dead was strangely upsetting. Although it shouldn’t be as Mick Herron is a great writer and has made these characters breath (as I write this two weeks later I haven’t read any further as the lockdown has skewed my reading fare to things a little more light hearted or towards watching TV!).

…and, as just mention, this evening Prime Minister Johnson declared a national lockdown…except for going out for work, to exercise or to buy food and/or medicines…and about time, this should have happened at least a week ago if not sooner…

…and I did today’s G2 Crossword:

…which got the week off to an almost flying start as the little cells and me chewed through the clues like an old-timey cowpoke chewing through chewing ‘baccy and we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 24). But we probably should have gotten ‘fibres’ from ‘thread-like structures’ and ‘Polish’ from ‘a West Slavic language’, but now we known that Polish is a West Slavic language and that Poland is a West Slavic country. And we also learnt that ‘tables of standard numerical calculations’ are called ‘ready reckoner’…