Good Lord, what a miserable thread this has become! I almost wish Trystan hadn't worked his magic and could bring back the security thingy to stop me accessing RC!
These 'rules' are ruining people's lives - ignore them! or, at least, go by what you think is right for you and yours. Common sense is the order of the day: not petty rules and regulations which are only thought up 'on the hoof' by a mediocre set of politicians, mostly for political ends. You are a better judge of what is safe for yourselves - to try to understand why and how these pettifogging rules work is to make yourself miserable. As I've said many times before, I've given up listening. I will now only wear a mask (horrible things) when to do otherwise could cost me £100 (incidentally, don't you find it a bit chilling that, if you pay your fine on the spot, it will only cost you half that? i.e. its a moneymaking measure) or when to do otherwise might be truly harmful.
If I'm supposed to wear a face nappy from tomorrow if visiting a shop, I simply won't visit the shop but shop online. I'm sure I'm not alone - so leading to a final goodbye to the High Street. Is this really what the mediocrity wants to happen? Did they (have they ever?) thought this - or anything else - through?
For the past few evenings (daft bat that I am) I have been in my back garden at dusk watching the bats flying around, as they always have, but also have seen grey squirrels scooting across my patio and at least two hedgehogs scurrying along the grass: one quite plump and the other, I think, a baby. I've never seen these before the lockdown caused nature to get that little bit more adventurous in our big noisy world. I wonder if the hedgehogs are the reason I haven't seen any slugs or snails eating my plants this year?
Please, stop getting yourselves so depressed. Its not good for you!
