Coronavirus
I started the day with a nice 7.5 mile run and from then on I have been working on a rota for stewards to help with the vaccine programme in Maidstone. Our Rotary Club is taking the lead and I am working on the volunteers rota. After several hours I was almost there and then […]
My cycling friend’s wife Greta had a fall in the street yesterday. She badly injured her face. Last night she and Mike spent five hours in A&E and today they have gone to East Grinstead Hospital as she needs to have repairs done to her jaw and teeth. I will find out tomorrow how they […]
The first Covid vaccinations took place today on the over 80s. This of course is good news but there is a long way to go. It is expected that it will take into the Spring before most of the country are immunised. The programme is massive, they have started in hospitals and first up are […]
Following the break in lockdown for Thanksgiving, the US Covid cases and deaths have risen sharply. This is not a good sign for our Xmas break, if it goes the same way and people ignore all the precautions during the holiday, cases will suddenly rise again in the UK. As for Kent they are still […]
Nottingham’s Xmas market was closed today due to overcrowding. There were no toilet facilities anywhere as pubs, shops etc have all there’s closed. One can imagine what the outcome was according to the news and it wasn’t pleasant! Nottingham is in Tier 3, same as us yet all the shops are open. Sue and I […]
Yes some snow on the hills last night and loads of rain. I set off to Headcorn on the bike this morning, the valley in The Quarries was completely impassable because of floodwater. We had no snow in Loose but once I was up at Chart Sutton there had been plenty. After nearly 50 miles […]
Medway has just overtaken Swale and Thanet to become the worst infected area in the Country. Medway has 375 cases/100k, Maidstone is in the top ten with 375. The average for England is 129. Our area is still on the rise whereas most of the rest of the country are experiencing a gradual decline. Winter […]
Although the country is reducing it’s Covid cases, our part of Kent is increasing rapidly. Maidstone now has the the fifth highest number of cases in England. Swale, Thanet, Medway and Gravesham have more! Medway hospital is barely coping with the influx of Covid cases. It’s a really frightening time in our part of the […]
I met my friend Mike at Mereworth and I was really cold. Temperature never above 4 degrees all day. A great day’s ride though, we went for coffee at Ightham Mote. I have only ever been there once when son Mike was about 14 years old playing in a junior orchestra. I have never cycled […]
Today Maidstone’s Covid cases per 100, 000 are 313. Swale, Medway and Thanet are each over 500 cases yet almost every other area in the country is showing a good decline in cases. The UK R number is now under 1. However, our corner of Kent keeps rising. Not good I am sorry to say. […]