The highest number of UK deaths recorded in one day since the start of the pandemic in March last year. Nothing to be proud of there are thousands dying and some people still don’t think it could happen to them or that they could have no symptoms and pass it on to many others. In a Switzerland ski resort a British tourist has been blamed for bringing the new variant Coronavirus from Britain to a hotel and spreading it to 27 others. As a result a major downhill competition has been cancelled as the virus has spread rapidly through the community. Why was he going on holiday for goodness sake!! A new worse variant has broken out in Brazil. Our Govt has stopped people travelling there, but are still allowing people in to the UK. Boris said that all precautions are being taken. No they are not, we should stop all flights from Brazil.
One glimmer of local hope is that new cases in Kent is very slowly reducing. Hopefully this will remain the trend, however it is still much higher than it should be at 725 per 100, 000 people. Since my groin strain on Monday I have stayed home to rest. Whilst Sue has continued her Toby teaching I have started sorting a couple of boxes in my small loft. Gone now are all my notes I wrote for my MedSc back in 1999 and I have been through all the items had when I had Daydreamer my sailing boat. There are lifejackets, harnesses, navigational compass and charts, flags etc etc. I think I will put the whole lot on our Rotary auction site. If that doesn’t work there is always E Bay or similar. It’s a start, but already hard to get rid of things which meant a lot to me at the time but of no use to me or the family now. I will continue with the project so when the time eventually comes, Sue and the boys won’t have too much to throw away.