A Roadmap Out Of Lockdown?

 (Monday) 7.30a.m. So Boris Johnson is to unveil a 'roadmap' out of lockdown later to day. Another of the infamous press conferences from Downing Street at around 7p.m. I just hope it's a road that has no hold-ups, with men in the road putting down cones and then you have to drive off the Motorway onto narrow country roads and then stuck behind a slowly-moving farm implement like an enormous combine harvester and then you go off down a narrow country lane and end up in a very muddy farmyard. Sorry for the mixed metaphors, but I just couldn't resist. I just hope that Boris has the roadmap the right way up and he has some sort of sense of direction so we don't end up in a cul de sac or even stuck under a bridge like a double decker bus whose driver doesn't have any idea of the route he's taking. Any more puns based on 'roadmap' write on a postcard or email to me.

I opened the curtains and looked out. Quite dry on the weather-front. There's a white van parked immediately outside and it has 'Bathroom tiling' emboldened along one side. It's obviously had a former life as it has 'Motorway Maintenance' on the rear with red and yellow stripes, the sort of vehicle you see going up and down the M1 or any other Motorway. Or is it (my stupid sense of the ridiculous.) an individual who is a motorway maintenance operative who does bathroom tiling on the side? Just hope he doesn't get the two jobs middled up and start tarmacing some dear old ladies bathroom or then tiling the hard shoulder of the M25 by accident. . . 

Later. I was supposed to have an electrician or someone come to do a safety check of the power points or something this afternoon. It was booked some while ago and I forgot about it but then it was rearranged for this afternoon, but I got a telephone call to say the workman was ill or something so it's had to be rearranged yet again. March 10th in the morning. I shall have to make sure I'm in when they come.

Later still. 'A one-way road to freedom' is how Boris Johnson has described the infamous 'roadmap' out of lockdown. I hope it is 'one way' and that there will be no u-turns. To mis-quote Margaret Thatcher, 'the gentleman's not for turning!' It's going to be cautious, but we must get out of this deadly ambush of our freedoms.

Could this possibly be aforementioned 'roadmap'? Bumpy road ahead, with one or two diversions for roadworks methinks, perhaps?

Later. I took Alfie out at around 2p.m. We went out through the door directly into Strudwick Drive and as I opened the door the wind made the door make a weird vibrating sound. I must say, the wind is quite strong at the moment, but to have a door making odd noises is really amusing and somewhat strange, but at the moment it's probably good to have something odd to take my minds off the relentless boredom of lockdown.

Back to reality, if that's possible. Now completed 26 pages of writing. Contemplating whether to transcribe it into word processing or not, the thought of it not a good idea as it's not my favourite job. I enjoy the actual writing (which, by the way, I do in pencil as it means it's easier to change as I go.

Wednesday 24th February. It's mild but windy this morning. Alfie curled up in his bed. He seems to like it as it's his own space.

I ordered a side unit on Amazon. It is small enough to go in the space currently take up by a red IKEA coffee table which I bought to the flat from the house in Eaglestone. It has drawers and shelving in it and should be an idea replacement. It was ordered on 3rd February and is supposed to arrive today, but I still can't understand why it's taking so long to be delivered. Generally if you order things from Amazon they take around a day to be delivered (I have Amazon Prime so you usually get preferential treatment regarding delivery and post and packaging. Also, you don't always know where an item comes from when you order. Goodness knows where this piece of furniture has come from and why on earth it's taking three weeks or more to arrive here.