Cocooned – Day 25
Fuck me but this virus is really getting on my wick.
Ironically it’s not my cocooning that’s bothering me, it’s everyone else’s.
We had a visit this morning from our Appointed Home Help. She had arrived last week when I was still asleep and I only knew she had been when I checked the CCTV. If she finds the back door locked she just buggers off again. This annoys me as she’s a lovely person [we really get on like the proverbial residential conflagration] but she refuses to ring the door bell as she doesn’t want to wake us.
So I set my alarm for this morning so that I was up when she called. She duly arrived looking like she had just stepped out from the set of “Emergency ER” or something – all non-recyclable plastic and face masks and the like.
She pottered around with Herself doing a lot of things that weren’t really necessary but that make her feel happy. She then announced that she is going to come twice a week starting this week. Bugger! Had to adjust my alarm to ring on Thursdays as well as Tuesdays.
Anyhows she left.
Almost immediately we had one of our little “emergencies” where I really could have done with some help. Fate is a bitch sometimes. So I phoned Daughter but she is cocooning too because of Grandson the Elder [a drop of any flu could be disastrous because of his multiple conditions]. She said very reluctantly that she’d come up anyway.
I then had another go at solving the “emergency” and managed to sort it. Phoned Daughter back to cancel her trip and she ate the bollox off me for exerting myself so much. I can’t win.
What I would love now more than anything else is a peaceful mug of coffee down in the village.
But of course they’re closed.
I do wonder, do Cocooning butterflies, also get cirrhosis of the liver and wild hair.
Or it’s only me….
Have you never seen a butterfly on the wing? Personally I have never seen one fly in a straight line. Pissed out of their tiny heads.
Maybe you'd like to let your gubmint know that it doesn't seem to make much / any difference: https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-end-of-exponential-growth-the-decline-in-the-spread-of-coronavirus/
That is a very interesting argument [and well worth reading]. So effectively all the "social distancing" and crashing the economy is all for nothing? Ouch!
Perhaps you could take a flask of coffee and a folding chair and go to sit outside the Kingfisher? In behind their railings, you would be on private property so AGS could say nothing to you.
I would but for one drawback – Penny doesn't quite understand lockdowns and would expect a treat of chicken from the staff. She'd probably scrape all the paint off the locked door.
Grandad,
It frequently crosses my mind – as I’m sure it does yours – as to how lucky{?} we were to suffer the attacks on our hearts this time last year rather than this time this year. If you believer the MSM doom and gloom ‘reporting’ regarding full hospitals with staff on overload, if we’d suffered our attacks recently, and assuming they let us into a hospital, we’d probably have been put on a trolley and wheeled down the corridor marked, ‘Elderly – Low Importance.’
Indeed. The only advantage now is that ambulances can drive a lot faster with the almost total lack of traffic. I would image that chances of catching the virus are a lot higher when you are in the same building with a lot of cases? I know they segregate patients, but staff still have to move around.