Well things had to change didn't they? Things could never carry on the way they had . The beautiful weather had to finally break and with it a change of mood. The world does not quite look the same when it is cold and moody. The sun brings out a smile in all of us. Once it goes then life changes . Thank Goodness Covid 19 did not arrive on our shores until the weather had picked up. Imagine what it would have been like - cooped in like battery chickens . No garden to go into. No vegetable plots to dig. Walks would have been unpleasant . This morning it felt like that . The weather men had told us the weather would change . Like a mood coming on it did change . A ... read more

I woke early again . The bedroom was still in darkness . Tossing about I found I could not get back to sleep. My mind was going round and round . Odd thoughts . Day 49 - how many hours have we been locked down. 1176 hours or thereabouts. I could have begun to convert them to minutes and then to seconds . How many blogs have I written since lockdown? 49 of them . How many words ? Rather a lot . How many photographs? How many miles had I walked ? It must be well over 150 miles by now . That is all the way from Chesterfield to St Pancras Station in London . If I carry on I will walked to the Channel Tunnel or from east coast to West . From ... read more

Surfacing this morning was difficult . It is a work day today . Last night we had a frost . Not a heavy one . Not the sort of frost you get in the Winter . Not the sort of frost that you have to scrape off the car windscreen. But a frost nevertheless . The sort of frosty night that comes around now and again in May. It is shopping day and I had no plan . The shop opens are 8 . There will be a queue. I tried to think where to walk . The time was ticking away and I still had no plan . The shopping bags were out . The shoes were on. The car started up and off I set .Still with no plan. Petrol - I need fuel ... read more

Yesterday was Day 45 - Our five o'clock briefing was delivered by the less than charismatic Mr Gove who told us more of the same . He spelled out the numbers of deaths, the numbers of tests that had been undertaken. The numbers rolled off his tongue . Traffic was down. The numbers in hospital and the numbers of acute beds . He warned us there was no news of the lift of the lockdown. Not until next Sunday . Another week of the same. Perhaps schools will re-open but not for all pupils . Maybe the younger ones or those on the verge of leaving Junior school and going up to Secondary education in September . Possibly children with special needs . Perhaps we will see more businesses open . People returning to work but ... read more

Goedemorgen to you all . We would have probably woken up in Belgium this morning having dined on waffles or frites last night . I am sure that the sun would be shining as we rose . The sun has arrived here so the chances are Belgium would have been just as lovely . We would have hit the road and I would be saying goodbye to Belgium and goedemorgen to Holland . A few days would be spent taking in the delight of this flat land known as Gwlad Isel in Welsh . Aptly described as literally the Low Land . We had pencilled in windmills , Amsterdam , a museum or two , Delft factory to look at the blue and white china. A castle along the way . Instead of course I am ... read more