The postmen and women no longer take your signature but sign the screen themselves. Another delivery person took a photo of a parcel, on our door step by my feet, as proof of delivery.
The milkman continues to drop off our milk, but because so many people have signed up recently, Milk & More stopped new registrations and can no longer guarantee to deliver the milk before 4 am. Their aim now is ‘to get all deliveries out before the end of each delivery day. In the instance that we can’t deliver to you, we will email you.’
There was the 8pm applause for NHS workers today. My wife said there were some people outside their doors in West St Helen Street clapping. I had the strange experience of being in a village soon after 8pm. Round the winding village street, people were standing outside their front gates applauding. Any NHS person would have felt like royalty, so let me pass on that applause to any NHS person reading this.
Watch any TV drama / soap and it looks like some bygone age. Not only do they not obey the 2 meter rule, but they go to the pub, touch handles with their hands and then put their hands near their mouths.
In Abingdon there are strips of tape to help peoples keep to the 2 meter rule in many places. These strips are for customers waiting to go into the Coventry Building Society at the top of East St Helen Street.
It was a sunny day and we went for our exercise walk in the area between Barton Fields and Radley Lakes. We saw very few people but did meet Jan Morter (ex Abingdon Mayor) and kept the 2 meter rule. We also met some other people coming through a narrower path, beside the Thames, and dived into the undergrowth – to avoid getting too close.
Sorry to be a pedant but the separation between people is measured in metres.
Would it be possible for people to walk on school playing fields ? This would be a welcome relief for those whose exercise is limited by distance to local streets.
I know dog mess is a fear but, the vast majority would pick up and, as seems likely, most fields will not be used by schools until September at the earliest. Anything that was not picked up would have composted by then.
I’m quite fortunate about this situation, as the court already ordered me to keep a safe distance from strangers!
Most of the schools are still open for small group of kids, so would raise safeguarding issues I’m afraid Chris
We joined the queue to go into Tesco and 2 people went and stood in front of us in our 2 metre space we’d left – we did tell them and they politely moved. Tesco only let 1 person per household in now (if you go there together) so whilst my other half went in I waited outside and it was interesting to see people’s perception of what they thought 2 metres was – lots of people ignored it.
Maybe when this is all over we should adopt one month per year of lockdown, giving humans the space to unwind from stress, pollution and noise – and give our beautiful earth respect, space and time to breathe again.
Stay safe people x
I visited Waitrose at my usual time; priority was being given to over 70s and the “vulnerable”. Spacing was well observed, but I admired and felt sorry for the member of staff having to tell some people to leave the queue.
I then went to Tesco to collect a repreat prescription. I arrived too early but was told to return at 09.00 when I would be admitted without having to queue. This turned out to be the case and I was impressed by those managing the queue, those assisting with hygiene and by the pharmacy team.
Sometimes it is hard to keep the two-metre distancing, but people were clearly doing their best.
I returned home grateful to be living in a country where we have food and shelter. I thought of friends of mine in Calcutta and Kottayam (in Kerala); we take a great deal for granted.
When I went to Tesco on Friday eve, my daughter had to return to the car. Lots of others queued separately and met up inside! Grr. Staff were lovely.