{"id":466,"date":"2020-06-18T20:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=466"},"modified":"2020-07-27T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:55:51","slug":"thursday-18th-june-2020-day-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/18\/thursday-18th-june-2020-day-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 18th June, 2020 [Day 94]"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the intense rain that we had last night, the day was still blustery and showery. I spent some time amending my Waitrose<\/em> order which is due to be delivered on Sunday and, in the meantime, we have had a letter from Waitrose<\/em> informing us that we are on\u00a0their priority list (which is good to hear) but it might take 10 days for the account details to be updated. Hopefully, I will get into a pattern so when I have one order delivered, then I need to be about two orders ahead to keep everything flowing at approximately weekly intervals. I went for the newspapers on my own today but took the opportunity to have a quick ‘whiz’ round Waitrose<\/em> where I renewed acquaintances with some of the old regulars in the staff. I needed to buy some chocolates as a birthday ‘prezzie’ for a friend and 1 or 2 other essentials that had been forgotten about in the rush. Then when I got home I had to hunt around for some present wrapping paper (avoiding anything that had Christmas bells all over it, of which I seemed to have an excess!) Then a traditional curry at lunchtime, appropriate when the day is a bit on the cool side.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the weather had evidently changed, this was a good opportunity to go through a pile of newspapers, seeking out an article I thought I had read days ago. Needless to say, I didn’t find so I resolve that whenever I see anything that is to be kept, I do it that night before the newspaper is jettisoned. Reading my emails this evening was quite interesting in that some businesses are evidently reaching out to try and establish a more normal trading relationship. My yoga\u00a0class which I was attending more and more sporadically before the lockdown is now turning itself into a little shop and supplies centre and hoping to resume classes of about 4 or so in a week’s time, so I must have a long hard think whether to attend or not (I think I probably need to). <\/span>Also the National Trust <\/span>are opening up their gardens (although not the interior of their houses) but are running a series of <\/span>timed slots for which you have to book in advance so that they know when to expect you and the overall numbers can be socially destined and kept manageable.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not normally comment on TV programmes that I have watched but today is an exception. I have just watched the first episode (0f 4) of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles<\/em> and it remains fresh in my memory because I re-read the book quite recently whilst on holiday in Salobre\u00f1a, Southern Spain (the hotel had a little library of books for the guests and the Hardy was well worth reading) I have to say that the acting and the cinematography are both superb and I was thoroughly absorbed for the hour it was on. A regular treat each Thursday night for the next three weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is interesting that quite a lot of attention is being paid to the question of how life will be changed once the immediate crisis of the pandemic is passed. One of the most interesting comments I have read suggests “What we have now is an opportunity, and we have two options of what we can do with it: one is to pick up the pieces and try to put them together as they were before. But the other option is to assemble the pieces in a different and smarter way<\/em>.” This does mirror my own feelings as it almost feels as though we are pressing the ‘reset’ \u00a0button and starting all over again. I have to say that having got into the habit of online shopping, this is one particular change in my lifestyle which I think will continue. And although we dare not think about it too deeply, it may well be that in a week or so we might be in a position to think about a holiday in Spain to see our dearest Spanish friends (and see how other societies are coping with the crisis as well)<\/span><\/p>\n

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