Wednesday night. The President goes on television to tell the nation what's been long expected. Lockdown will be extended across the whole country from Saturday for four weeks. Schools will close from Monday and then stay shut until the end of the Easter holidays. 150,000 non-essential shops will shut. The number of ICU beds will, hopefully, double from 5,000 to 10,000. Rather alarmingly for a politician he says ' We have not lost control ... but we can't be in denial either'.
This morning the postman stops at the front gate to say it's has last day on this round. He's got a promotion and will be moving to a desk job in the post office twenty miles away. This, it seems, means he won't need to get up at four every morning in all weathers. He was one of those always cheerful type of people and this news seems to have made him doubly cheerful. I wish him well.
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Hari OM
...dragonflies... surely you'll be seeing signs of autumn e'er lang! Did I mention that last week as I was gazing out the Hutch's windie, a left-hand drive car with French plates drove up the street? We do have quite a lot of cottages for rent in Dunoon. But that's quite the distance to flee the homeland! (Also dread to think of the implications for our untouched wee corner...) YAM xx
Oh dear! Another month - how depressing. But how necessary until the inoculations make things safe. I hope you're well provisioned?
Oh dear, indeed. Even if this was expected, it's certainly not welcome (although Sophie probably won't mind).
Any news on your daughter ?
We have enough dried pasta to last .... I hope.
You'd have to be brave to drive around in a French registered car., Can't believe they'd be welcome on some of the islands.
Was the Lady Friend on the trip to Marseille? On wonders how she responded to the motor home 'running rough'. And what she thinks of the shiny blue track suit trousers held up with braces... Très chic or maybe not!
Lockdown, what lockdown?...I rather get the impression the politicos are giving up in Greece. There will be some lecturing and posturing, but it seems to be sinking in that the politicians have lost control of the people, irrespective of the spread of plague. Sophie's dragonfly-hunting pose is magnificent.
And enough toilet paper to last the next 100 years?
....and definitely enough wine and Easter chocolate!
Negative! And my son received his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Ohio, so we had a pretty good pandemic day. Now we just have to wait until some enterprising soul starts offering hotel + vaccine packages - perhaps in Hawaii?
How lovely to be Sophie and able to contemplate dragonflies, and nature at it's best. How we wish that our lives were so full of such simple pleasures.
There has been much activity in readying rental properties here. We're expecting a further influx, over and above the French, Belgian and Dutch cars that have been arriving over the past weeks. Looking at a graph showing Spain's latest virus figures, it's rising again, from low figures. It will probably shoot up now that the holidays are upon us, but hopefully not sufficiently for us to go into lockdown again.
Spring has indeed come to your corner of la France profonde. Here there is snow on Ben Rinnes again, and heavy snow and gales forecast for Sunday. Scottish lockdown has now eased from stay at home to stay local. I doubt that's going to deter people from heading north for what they think are "empty" spaces. I know that people in Caithness, Skye and all around the over-marketed NC500 are dreading a repeat of last summer's inconsiderate wild camping and camper van camping with all the litter and ahem, "waste" left behind.
Your stark photos today are quite beautiful.
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