Friday 25th September 2020 Day 185

07.20  I have overslept for the first time in ages but this is also the first day this week that I haven’t had to be up early for anything.  I always try to get up early, living on my own, because if I gave in to no incentive and no real structure in place, I could see myself being very lazy.  It works quite well most of the time but this morning not only have I slept longer than I intended but it is noticeably much colder, I could very easily stay where I am.

7.30  I put the news on and hear that the Spurs manager Jose Mourinho, complained last night when his goal keepers said at the warm up, that the goals were smaller than they should be and it turned out that they were in fact 5 cms lower .  How on earth did they notice that small amount?  The goals were taken down and replaced at the right size. In the light of the current crisis it rather puts everything into perspective and was it really main morning newsworthy?

I am going to work my way through a very long list of things I have been putting off today.  I want to keep my mind busy because it seems in the last couple of days we have reached something of a turning point.  The thought of at least another six months through the winter, of uncertainty’s and further strict rules, has taken us in a backward step except that this time we will not have the hot weather to help us through and it is a very sobering thought. I think for the first time I am wanting to bury my head in the sand and I doubt I am alone in this.  No doubt we will all rally as we do and find ways to get through it.  It is the young I worry about mostly, it should be their time and who can blame them for wanting to raise their heads above the parapet.

I was looking through some photographs earlier and came upon the scene in the Blackpool Tower where I went last year with friends for a weekend.  It was the first time I had been there. What I noticed first about this particular photograph taken in the famous ballroom, was the proximity of people and it just looks wrong now, everyone sitting or dancing so close together,  I wonder if when all this is over, we will go back to how we were, or will the new social distancing become the new norm?

17.00  My two black furry friends are milling round me for their tea, I could set my watch by them.