When I opened the bedroom curtains at sunrise, the sky was pale blue, dotted with pale yellowy-pink clouds high up, very beautiful. It didn't last long, however. By breakfast time a layer or low lying rain cloud moved in, and it rained as long as it was daylight before the sky turned clear again.
We used a portion of Clare's sourdough bread dough from yesterday to make two pizza bases, and I cooked different veggie toppings with vegan cheese for both of us for lunch. A tasty result again.
It rained throughout my afternoon walk and again my rain jacket but also my shoes got soaked through, this time it was my new rain jacket, whose seams aren't waterproof, I discovered. The majority of trees in the parks around have now lost their leaves, although there are still some trees which seem to have lost hardly any and others whose leaf cover is thinning out very slowly. It would be interesting to know the reason for these differences.
In the evening a most interesting documentary programme on Sky Arts channel, a biography of French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, as he's known. In a brief glimpse of the family tomb in which he was buried, the inscription on the lintel stated that the family name was 'de Gas'. Joining the two like that is improper. I believe that the use of 'De' instead of 'de'- the so-called 'nobiliary particle' - isn't French. The joining of particle to surname and use of a capital 'D' is, however, found in Italy eg Dicaprio, Dinozzo. Now that's something new I found out today. The paintings shown in the programme, and sometimes the detail within them were very beautiful. They look better on TV than in reproduction postcards and prints and that's not something I often say about colour TV imaging, which often seem to be too bright and over-saturated, slightly unreal.
News today of a second covid-19 vaccine reported as being even more effective than the first announced last week. It's a different type of vaccine two that interacts with the body in another way. The greater the variety of efficacious vaccines, the better will inoculation programmes be able to reach a wider range of ages and ethnicity. Meanwhile, Boris Johnston is back in quarantine up stairs in number ten, as one of the MPs he had a meeting with last week has since tested positive for the virus.
The Prime Minister's official residence is claimed to be a 'covid safe' zone, so how come this happened. Nobody in an official press photo of the meeting with half a dozen others was wearing a mask. It's as bad as the White House in Washington. The likelihood of Boris being reinfected is quite low, but he still has to self-quarantine, and set a good example. Who knows what'll happen downstairs while he's tucked away for a fortnight.
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