{"id":2560,"date":"2021-06-13T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2021-06-13T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T23:23:33","slug":"sunday-13th-june-2021-day-454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/13\/sunday-13th-june-2021-day-454\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 13th June, 2021 [Day 454]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today being a Sunday, it was a day when the alarm gets set a little early and I get up ready to make my progress down to the newspaper shop bright and early in the morning. There is always quite an interesting atmosphere around first thing on a Sunday morning. For a start, I am generally listening to my trust old\u00a0I-Phone I utilise as an MP3 player and this morning was a Mozart morning. I\u00a0particularly\u00a0enjoyed the track of a tenor singing ‘Il\u00a0mio Tesoro’ from Don Giovanni<\/em> – I remember this\u00a0because the melody is sufficiently simple to be played on an instrument. In this\u00a0<\/span>case, my son played it on his clarinet for some sort of examination (Grade 3 I wonder?) All if can remember pf this is that the junior headmaster had asked my son how the examination had gone and\u00a0received the\u00a0answer of ‘Brill’ Later on he was to win the school prize for music in his year group\u00a0playing the 2nd (slow ) movement of the\u00a0Mozart Clarinet concerto. At some stage after\u00a0this, a combination of three things entered my son’s life (photography, girls and classic locomotives but in\u00a0which order I couldn’t say) Walking down to town at that time in the morning, one does not encounter many other souls but they tend to fall into the category of serious joggers (often in pairs) and dog walkers. To make life even more interesting this\u00a0morning, there is evidently some cabling or\u00a0other kind of activity\u00a0gong on in the pavements in the town. All of the underground services are\u00a0labelled in a variety of spray paints and I counted at least six\u00a0colours of paint (white, yellow,\u00a0cyan, blue, orange, red) as well as some white chalk marks. I suppose these represent water, sewage, gas,\u00a0electricity and TV \/communications and more besides) but evidently there are all sorts of codes and symbols represented by these symbols but with their meaning obscured to the\u00a0general public. Also at this time, the\u00a0owners of some classic vehicles take to the road and I spotted this morning one person on a Vespa scooter ( the last one I saw must have been decades ago) and I think I noticed a classic\u00a0sports car called a Triumph Stag but as it swept past me, I was having to rely upon memory as to whether my\u00a0identification was correct or not. After breakfast and the <\/span>Andrew Marr<\/em>\u00a0Show, Meg and I wandered down to the park where we met up with a\u00a0couple of our park regulars before we departed fairly early in order to have our lunch\u00a0before kick-off in the England-Croatia match in the Euro\u00a0finals.\u00a0Actual, as it turned out Meg and I thoroughly enjoyed the match although football is not really our game. The match was enjoyable to\u00a0watch, not least\u00a0cause\u00a0England\u00a0secured a (deserved) 1-0 victory but also because the\u00a0young English\u00a0team demonstrated some enterprise and initiative. The goal was well-deserved and the Croatians were lucky that an earlier\u00a0excellent England shot had rebounded\u00a0from the upright. Tomorrow’s matches are going to be Scotland vs. Czech Republic and\u00a0Spain vs. Sweden so there is something in both of these matches that might well attract my\u00a0<\/span>attention tomorrow. Of course, as the matches are\u00a0played in\u00a0European time zones, then one doesn’t have to get up in the middle of the night or ridiculously early in the morning which can happen if it is the World\u00a0rather than the European finals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although I did not really want to do it, I thought\u00a0the it was so long since the car had a wash that it badly needed a wash down. We haven’t\u00a0been on the kind of trips that generally makes cars dirty but a fine dust had descended upon it over the last week or so. So I gave it a rather cursory wash,\u00a0compared with normal, as it is the hottest day of the year and not the\u00a0best day to engage in car washing although I did\u00a0wait until 5.0 before\u00a0I started. Tomorrow is going to be the day when the government plans will be\u00a0announced whether the lockdown is to continue or be lifted. Boris Johnson will, in all\u00a0<\/span>probability,\u00a0announce that the lockdown shall continue for 4 weeks more.This does have the ‘advantage’ of\u00a0any eventual end of a lockdown being in the middle of July ie. approximately when the\u00a0schools finish. Also it appears that more than half of the population agree that the restrictions should be in place for another month.On a\u00a0societal level, we are waiting for the rate of vaccinations (and\u00a0particularly \u00a0the\u00a0second vaccination) to proceed at a faster pace than the\u00a0virus can spread. However, this Delta variant seems to\u00a0spread 60% more\u00a0rapidly than\u00a0its predecesors. It would appear on the surface\u00a0that any \u00a0government that did not extend\u00a0the lockdown for a\u00a0further month would be\u00a0guilty of the\u00a0most severe dereliction of duty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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