(Friday, 27th March 2020)
Rose at usual time, around 7 am to sort the animals, make a pot of tea and start work on further editing of the lyrics for "Festival of Roses" after last night's meeting with Sam Hubbard, Frankie Grasso and Graham Porter. By midday, after a few other tasks, including our morning Tai Chi session with B, I was done and it was on its way to Sam.
Spent a fairly energetic hour after lunch washing down the dogs' spending run as well as the arduous task of removing the eminently breakable plastic grills covering the drainage channel to clear it of smelly muck! Anyway, job done and smells a lot better now.
Lovely long conversation with Cate, who was walking Cole, her HIV positive cat, on a harness. Cole had early on in the walk, climbed a tree as far as the lead would let him and, for most of the conversation, he remained up there giving Cate the evil eye! Anyway, it was good to hear she was well, but about to embark on a series of five night shifts at the veterinary practice. Three or four colleagues were apparently off in isolation for various reasons, so mounting pressure there.
So there ends a fairly interesting and satisfying day, but nevertheless a day in which many more people have succumbed to the infamous Corona Virus. A day in which increasingly the police are clamping down on any public social gatherings and even stopping people in the cars to find out if their journey is essential. If not they are being turned round and asked to go home.
Stay at home, people, free up the roads for those who really need them, like the doctors and nurses of the NHS, who need as much relief as they can get.
I'm beginning to pray more.
Today's Music Choice from Clemency Burton-Hill's "Year of Wonder" is Overture fromLa clements di Tito, K.621 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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