{"id":2538,"date":"2021-06-10T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:13:53","slug":"thursday-10th-june-2021-day-451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/10\/thursday-10th-june-2021-day-451\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 10th June, 2021 [Day 451]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the kind of day when\u00a0you knew your typical routine was\u00a0going to be amended and thus it proved to be. The shopping\u00a0lorry arrives on a Thursday morning and we thought that the fridge needed a good clean out before it got repopulated so this took up quite a bit of time this morning. We knew that our hairdresser was due to\u00a0arrive around midday so one way or another, we knew that our timetables would go awry. In conversation with our domestic help, she\u00a0<\/span>spoke in glowing terms about the super AirBnB in which she has stayed whilst\u00a0visiting her son in Devon so we speculated how something might be available in the Conway area. Whilst we were just\u00a0vaguely looking we found what seems to be a\u00a0super place not far away from Meg’s Uncle Ken who we badly want to visit when we can.So, almost on the spur of the moment, Meg and I\u00a0booked up for three nights away in\u00a0just a fortnight’s time in one of the AirBnB’s with a ‘Superhost’ commendation. The booking was all very easily done but we rather had fun and games getting registered with AirBnB to make sure our booking was accepted. Fortunately, I had a copy of the relevant page of my passport in my computer system so this bit was easy to supply. Then what was needed was an up-to-date photo of you which had to be matched up with your passport photo within their system. I\u00a0opted eventually for their system to upload a photo of me taken with our own webcam – then we had an anxious wait to see if this would match up with my passport photo (which I must say looks fuzzy and blurred to me) After 20 minutes or so the confirmation came through and I could then go\u00a0ahead and confirm the booking and exchange a message with our ‘Superhost’. \u00a0I was relieved the technology worked OK on\u00a0this occasion. The last\u00a0time I tried anything similar, when applying for an NHS app then the images did not match and were rejected, the\u00a0application froze, the computer crashed – quite a nightmare which took hours.\u00a0<\/span>However, ‘all’s well that end’ well so we are looking forward to our three day stay in a fortnight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After we had our haircuts and a light lunch, I knew I needed to get into town principally to\u00a0<\/span>visit the local branch of Santander. When I go there, I was actually two minutes late after their closing time (of 4.30) but I was very\u00a0grateful be let in. I had been sent a new debit card through the post and as it was the first time in use, I was relieved that it dispensed me my money (and I could withdraw some cash, which\u00a0I do once in a blue moon) but also revalidated my pin which I suspect might only have possible from the big machine inside the bank.\u00a0This worked OK – but I still have to do the rounds of the people who have my card details on file in order to get the details updated. I hate this part of getting a\u00a0new card but I hope it will see me all right for a year or so. After my visit to the bank, I picked\u00a0up my newspapers ( and they were amazed to see me so late in the day but at least my papers were secure) and bought a\u00a0few cosmetics. Then I spent quite a long time in our local Waitrose<\/em> trying (and failing) to\u00a0match up the incredibly good low-alcohol lager which I acquired through my Waitrose<\/em> order recently but which seems to have disappeared both from their websites and, judging by today, from their\u00a0shelves as well. I found a substitute but only consuming it will let me know whether they simulate the flavour of a lager or not. I also bought, on the spur of the moment, a low-alcohol milk stout which, again, may prove to be an interesting drink experience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, in the House of Commons, Matt Hancock the Health Secretary has been given his own evidence of a type of ‘rebuttal’ of the claims made by Dominic Cummings a fortnight ago. The committee have asked Dominic Cummings for some documentary evidence to back up his allegations – this has not been forthcoming as you might expect (if only because the documentary evidence to support ‘who said what’ in a heated conversation is hard to find) This will then allow the committee to disregard as much of the Dominic Cummings as they like \u00a0which will keep them in the good books of the Prime\u00a0Minister and make any final report that they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/span>to issue so much more\u00a0anodyne (i.e. with any criticisms muted, which will suit Boris). \u00a0It also appears that we are still a long way of ‘herd immunity’ \u00a0as although the doubly\u00a0vaccinated\u00a0<\/span>adult\u00a0population is now over 50%, there is still a huge ‘reservoir’ of the virus in the bodies of schoolchildren who, it appears. might carry<\/em> the virus but not get sick from it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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