{"id":24309,"date":"2020-03-26T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24309"},"modified":"2020-03-26T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:00:33","slug":"coronavirus-lockdown-day-3-deliveries-nhs-workers-applauded-like-royalty-and-the-two-meter-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24309","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 3 &#8211; Deliveries, NHS Workers applauded like Royalty, and the two meter rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032601.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 3\" \/><br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>The milkman continues to drop off our milk, but because so many people have signed up recently, Milk &#038; More stopped new registrations and can no longer guarantee to deliver the milk before 4 am. Their aim now is&nbsp;<i>&#8216;to get all deliveries out before the end of each delivery day. In the instance that we can\u2019t deliver to you, we will email you.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032600.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 3\" \/><br \/>\nWatch 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.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032616.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 3\" \/><br \/>\nIn 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.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032614.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 3\" \/><br \/>\nIt 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 &#8211; to avoid getting too close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#038; More stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}