{"id":2532,"date":"2021-06-09T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2021-06-09T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:35:04","slug":"wednesday-9th-june-2021-day-450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/09\/wednesday-9th-june-2021-day-450\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 9th June, 2021 [Day 450]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was an interesting type of day. We were a little delayed as we composed our <\/span>Waitrose<\/em> order which is part of our normal Wednesday morning but that having been done, we proceeded on our way down into the park. As we walked down our access road (which is privately owned by us) we noticed that one of our near neighbours had a fence panel removed in\u00a0order to allow access to\u00a0their rear garden from our roadway. This is all fine and dandy but our permission should have been\u00a0<\/span>asked first. Also (and we have been\u00a0here before) when this sort of thing has happened in the past, generally for the delivery\u00a0of building\u00a0materials such as paving blocks, sand, cement and other building supplies then it is not\u00a0unusual for all <\/span>kinds of mess to be left behind on our driveway which we then have to clear up. So I stuck my head through the gap in the fence and informed the garden makeover people that they had parked their vehicle on a private road – and I wanted\/demanded that any mess be left behind be cleared up. Then we went on our way to the park and met one of our ‘usual suspects’ when we were sitting on our bench. We also bumped into our two sets of close friends who live down the road and were pleased to see them both as we missed each other for several days. One set of\u00a0friends we made an assignation to come and have some coffee and cakes with them in their garden next Tuesday – the other set of\u00a0friends had\u00a0just returned from North\u00a0Wales and we caught up quickly on some of the to-ings and fro<\/span>-ings of the last few days but we still have some catching up to do when they had completed some of their grandparenting duties. I think we are all a little anxious to try and see each other whilst we can because the spell of fine\u00a0weather is bound to break down after a few days so we all want to ‘make hay whilst the sun shines’ So Meg and I eventually returned home and prepared a quiche-and-salad lunch which was easy to prepare.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Halfway through the afternoon a\u00a0hand-delivered note had been popped through our letter box. It was from the neighbours who were were having a garden makeover and the letter (belatedly) asked for permission for\u00a0delivery vehicles to\u00a0utilise our driveway. I spent some time composing a diplomatic reply – and had just about got to the end of it and read it out to another neighbour who was effected in the same way as we were when the program containing my reply crashed and I lost everything. So I had to start all over again but, fortunately, I could remember most of what I had just said and I then liased with my son, working upstairs, to make sure that we had got the tone of the reply just right.\u00a0Without being\u00a0melodramatic about all of this,\u00a0emergency vehicles such as ambulances need to make their way down our access road which involves two 90\u00b0 degree turns to get to our house. Of the houses who contribute to our Residents Association,\u00a0half of us have had to have ambulances accessing their\u00a0properties within the last three years so this is not just a theoretical but an actual concern. We are going to have a final pair of eyes\u00a0upon the reply which has been seen by several of us before it all gets hand\u00a0delivered back again. The important thing is that all of\u00a0this can be and\u00a0will be handled amicably but we do\u00a0not\u00a0want little issues to fester, quite unnecessarily. Also, we have noticed before that firms who deliver building materials are often extraordinarily cavalier about the way in which they leave a trail of sand, cement and god knows what else behind them before\u00a0they drive away.\u00a0They always seem\u00a0absolutely amazed that they need permission to enter a\u00a0private road and we have to inform them that as well as\u00a0owning the roadway we also have to maintain it, clear up any of the mess that they might make and so on.\u00a0<\/span>Actually, with cluttered garages and an inability to get to back gardens through the ‘normal’ side\u00a0entrances, it is not uncommon for fence panels to be removed to provide an easy\/easier delivery point for the supply of building materials but of course the\u00a0permissions\u00a0should have been sought first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is now a substantial risk of ‘a substantial third wave’, with Delta R number estimated at 1.5 – 1.6 which sounds\u00a0<\/span>seriously bad to me. Third waves have\u00a0got to start somewhere and this has got all of the hallmarks of a start of a third wave to me (a non\u00a0epidemiologist!) More than 1,000 people are now in hospital, largely as a result of the Delta variant – the whole progress of the ‘third wave’ seems to be the result of a race between those vaccinated on the one hand versus the progress of the virus on the other. So far, it seems a bit like a 1-1 draw with my\u00a0suspicions that the virus may win the penalties shoot-out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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