The Daily Echo: Day 201

A very flat day today. We have done very little and there really is nothing much to report.

I had a bit of a walk this morning, which was very refreshing even though it was drizzling. I was initially following up a message from Pete and had walked up to the Crosses house to move the green bin back onto the drive as requested, and then thought I’d perambulate just a bit further. I didn’t go far, but it was nice to breath in a bit of fresh air.

A bit later on, I thought I’d nip to the shops to buy one or two bits and pieces as the on-line shop isn’t going to arrive until Monday evening, but I took one look at the busyness of the car park and decided against it. It was rammed. It was nearly lunchtime, so I suppose that’s why it was busy.

And that’s more or less the extent to which I have done any activity today at all. I haven’t been keen to do more chores round the house. I am fed up of those. I felt equally un-keen to chat to anyone either, so opted out of going to my prayer group this afternoon, too.

John stayed in bed this morning, played on the computer this afternoon before shooting off to Shepherds to buy a piece of wood, and that was the extent of his activity. We have had a really lazy day.

As I hadn’t bought anything from the shops, we did that Friday night thing of ordering a take-away again and ate a curry sitting in front of the TV this evening. We chose to try a different curry house but, to be honest, I didn’t think it was great.

The day has been interrupted at regular intervals to keep us on our toes, of course, by visits from the nurses three times today, but apart from that, we have slouched around. I have watched lots of tennis, in between the rain showers, and then we watched a short film this evening called ‘The Hundred-foot Journey’ with Helen Mirren. But either we weren’t in the right mood or it wasn’t very good, but either way, we looked at one another afterwards and wondered what it was all about.

Maybe an early night and a good night’s sleep will give us a boost and we’ll be up and at ’em tomorrow, but we certainly weren’t today.

We have watched the news today – probably about three times, morning, noon and night, and listened to the various views on the Trump’s COVID infection. Is it a ruse? That’s what some people are wondering. Heaven alone knows what the truth is. I imagine it’s true, but because truth has been a casualty of the Trump administration you do start to doubt it, don’t you? Whatever the truth is, I just hope that a more honest, humane and morally-principled America comes out of the election in November. As much as I’d like the same for our own country.

The news reports tell us that there are 6,968 people confirmed as infected today with 66 deaths in the community. The NHS reports that 9 people died yesterday in hospitals. We have also learned that the University of Northumbria has 770 students who have tested positive for the virus with 78 of them showing symptoms. Well, who could possibly have predicted that that would happen?

Take care everyone in these continuing uncertain times. God bless.