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Published: April 1st 2020
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Day 12 - Lockdown still continues . I broke it this morning . I made the decision to do the shopping first , come home , have a coffee and cake and then set out for the morning walk. It was good to be back in the car even if the drive was only 3 miles down the road. What happened next though was not what I expected . The supermarket looked fairly empty. As I walked across I realised that it was closed . The shutters were down. I could see the staff inside and caught their eye. "What time do you open?" 8am. As it was 6.45 I had two choices. Go home have the coffee and try again later or go for my walk now. In the end it was home and cake time. This meant an unnecessary journey one hour later . I got the walk in but only 25 minutes today .
The supermarket was full by 7.50. Queues around the block. I joined the queue leaving my obligatory 2 metre gap. Slowly like a snail we crawled round the building . Some folks tried to sneak in by the exit door. It brought out
the worse in human beings . Eventually went in and did the shopping which was not as bad as I expected . There was food on the shelves and none of the frantic panic buying. I just made two trips in the car rather than one . I have been though better than my neighbours . I wondered unkindly what part of not socialising and going out they failed to understand . A neighbour to one side had a visitor who stayed for a long time and then went gardening for her . To the other side another neighbour had a gardener cutting the hedge . A family across the way had visitors - at least four of them. It beggared belief. It seems that folks using public transport and cars had gone down rapidly since the 1st March . Today the 1st April loads more are now out in their car. Is this the governments fault for mixed messages?. Go out once - no you can go out anytime as long you still distance yourself . The local police have been chastised for using drones and putting footage on Facebook . The wording was blunt - "These idiots are walking the dog in the Peak District" "This couple have driven miles to get here ". " This person came out here to take a selfie" For once the police were right and the complainers about civil liberties wrong.
It feels like April Fools Day. The jokes we played on each other at school though were less important - glueing the teacher to the chair , dying hair purple , sitting with our backs to the teachers. Childish when you look back.
Getting home it was time for coffee and a Berliner doughnut. So what do you know about Berliner doughnuts? For some reason our shops have stopped making ordinary doughnuts and replaced them with Berliner doughnuts. A much lighter doughnut filled with strawberry rather than raspberry jam. Eating the doughnut took us back to a more simpler time - the Great JFK - who used the immortal words Ich bin ein Berliner in his speech in 1963. Widely regarded as the best known speech of the Cold War. Funny how a simple doughnut can bring back some powerful memories .
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