So, we are returning to more restrictions, bought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The government seems to change the restrictions on a daily basis. Where did the number 6 come from, being the limit of how many people can meet? Just plucked from the air without any scientific basis. Why not 7, 8, 9 0r 10? Why do pubs and restaurants have to close at 10p.m.? What on earth difference will that make to the spread of the coronavirus?
Several of the electric scooters left all over Oldbrook Green. I presume the company who runs the business which operate these devices will collect them and return them to wherever they come from. It seems strange to just have them left in the middle of paths around the place and not in some sort of parking space, similar to the bike hiring scheme (there's a parking space for them near the Oldbrook Centre. I think Santander is sponsor of them.)
(Saturday) The last couple of days it's been raining. Not heavy rain, but rather thin and pathetic. Even so, Alfie doesn't like it very much. I took him out just a few moments ago (it's now 11.25a.m. on Saturday 3rd October.) We walked along Strudwick Drive, me wearing my new Regatta rain jacket, but as soon as Alfie discovered the rain, he turned tail and took me back home.
(Tuesday) The seat of the toilet in my bathroom has broken. It broke several weeks ago. Not the actual seat but the lid. The plastic bit came away from the mechanism which holds it onto the bowl, so I reported it to the S.H.O., Barbara, and was hoping that it would be mended, no questions asked. Well, I didn't break it deliberately, I didn't do a tap dance on the lid or poke it to make it break. I was told yesterday that it was my responsibility to repair it. The company who are responsible for maintenance of the flat look after the BOWL of the toilet, but not the SEAT! Crazy!
I was quietly sitting and watching television when there was this noise. It sounded like something collapsing. I wasn't sure where or even what it was. I looked in the kitchen, thinking it might have been a box falling on the floor (not sure where or what, again) but it wasn't in there. Then I poked my head round the door of the bathroom and found that the shower curtain rail was the culprit. Weird, as I hadn't touched it or even been near it. These curtain rails are only held in place by a sort of rubber washer (for want of a better world) on the end of the rail in a sort of round arrangement which screws on the end and you screw it out until it grips the wall. I can't believe that that is all that keeps it in place. I have now managed to reassemble the whole thing and it's holding up, and it hasn't collapsed as yet (well, at least, as I write this but will keep you informed it it decides to collapse again.
(Friday) Still not a lot to write about. The Council have built a fence along the Oldbrook Boulevard she of the Green, presumably with the intention of preventing further traveller's caravans being able to get onto the grass. They completed around half and then some bureaucrat thought strong and hard and realised that caravans could be able to access the area the other side of the skateboard park, so a further fence has been constructed. Next to impossible for anyone to drive onto the grass now. Even a small bit of fence along the opening into Shackleton Place.
(Monday) I went on line to book an appointment to get my hair cut at Central Barbers. This was a couple of days ago. The last time I had my hair cut I went to their website and was able to book and pay for an appointment, so it made sense to repeat this as it saves having to wait and if you pay you just walk in before the appointed time and then at the end, be because you've paid on line, there's nothing further to pay. I wasn't sure that I had actually successfully got an appointment booked. There's nothing to acknowledge your booking, such as being sent an email as you get when you buy something from Amazon. So this morning I phoned the shop and it turned out I hadn't got the appointment booked, but they made the appointment over the phone, for this Wednesday (21st October.) at 10.15a.m.
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