Here we go again! Another post title utilizing a song title from a musical. Any guesses? It’s from ‘Gypsy.’ Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Jule Styne, book by Arthur Laurents. I only recently discovered that it’s based on real people.
Sunday. 9.50 a.m. It's another really fine and beautiful morning here in Milton Keynes. I was out well before 6 a.m. and since then I have been out again with Alfie. The whole place is heaving with people jogging and exercising. Mind you, it's too hot for that for me and is expected to get even hotter as the week progresses.
I have had ideas of how to continue my writing and thought it best to put pen to paper and get it down before it disappeared like snow in sunshine. I should really say pencil to paper as I never write with a pen. Similar, I find, to Roald Dahl, who always used a specific brand and type of pencil. The brand was Dixon, Ticonderoga Artist Pencil No 12. They are yellow with an eraser on their tip. He used to have six, ready sharpened, with an electric sharpener, because he didn't want to leave his writing shed once he started writing. He used to throw unused pages of writing in a dustbin that overflowed with paper because he was so finicky about the quality and just wanted to get it perfect. And who can blame him?
I have another three sides of A4 written. Writing is like dealing with the wind. You have to go with the flow before a gust of wind blows your thoughts away and get it down on paper because it's gone if you forget what you had thought of, which is why keeping a notebook of your ideas and thoughts is so important. When I move from the house in Eaglestone I, unfortunately, mislaid two such notebooks, which were full of bits and pieces, jottings, notes, ideas, characters, plot ideas. All of it lost forever unless some kind soul finds them and they are returned to me.
It is definitely hot! Alfie doesn't like it, and I'm not over-fond. I don't mind it being dry and bright, but when it gets too hot, like now, I find it very difficult to keep cool. I think I prefer a more temperate climate, cool, without rain, with a bit of a breeze. Being indoors is really the order of the day.
We are now being told that lockdown restrictions are likely to remain in place until spring! I can't believe our beloved politicians are even listening to the doomsayers, the scientists. Even a month more is too long to wait until Freedom Day, but around NINE MONTHS! I think in all honesty, the population of the United Kingdom will revolt. We have several vaccines and around 60% of adults have had at least one dose, probably more have had two and they're about to vaccinate children. We have good immunity, built up by having the vaccine and probably from herd immunity, and they are considering having more lockdowns??? PLEASE not more! There are some business owners, those who run hospitality, hotels, bars, B and Bs, and similar premises, who are threatening to SUE the government if this happens. They have ordered stock, food, drink, and so on, which would go to waste if they can't sell it. It would be the same in the entertainment industry, where theatres have been dark from late March 2020. Actors, technicians, and all those who are involved in some way in the theatre industry have been building up to reopening on 21st June. Rehearsals for shows which have been closed down because of lockdown restrictions will be all for nothing if there are to be no audiences to watch their shows.
One hopes things are 'coming up roses', but we will know later today whether lockdown will be relaxed. Come on Boris! We want our lives back.
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