A lovely sunny start to the day. I felt sad not to be able to go to the midweek Eucharist at St Catherine's so I read the liturgical scriptures for the day (the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary) and recited the service off by heart instead. In the lunchtime post came a letter confirming my surgery date. The leaflet giving instructions about self isolation prohibits leaving home, except for medical emergencies. It's annoying to receive this the day after rather than the day before I was meant to start. That's exactly the same as it was when I returned from Ibiza. Quarantine instructions from NHS Wales arrived more than forty eight hours after I reached home.
In both instances I knew and did the right thing, in terms of keeping well away from other people. It's hardly any wonder some fail to take seriously public health edits, with a catalogue of inconsistencies and delays in time critical communication. So it's back to the cramped daily household exercise routine, and no more photographing autumn colours developing, no matter what impact it has on my physical and mental state.
The surge of infection rates all over the UK is leading to more localised restrictions, and this has yet to bear fruit in noticeable levelling off or reduction in rates. Some though by no means all University campuses across the country are seeing abnormally high infection rates. It will be interesting to see what analysts make of this. Is it about student behaviour in some communities? Or is it to do with how those students are accommodated and how those residential communities are being managed? Or is it just the random misfortune of the odd anonymous 'superspreader' event revealing flaws in social arrangements, another illustration of catastrophe theory in action outside of expectations?
Tonight we watched the last heart-warming episode of 'The Shtisels'. It ended in a way that suggested a further series, and when I checked IMDB I found out that there is indeed another set of twelve episodes from 2015, the first having been in 2013, and there's a third series in the pipeline. I wonder how we can acquire the second box set?
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