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Another successful video upload on time this morning, and after breakfast, a walk to St Catherine's to celebrate the Eucharist with nine others. It's the first time I've celebrated since my Golden Jubilee, and any nervousness I might have felt beforehand was soon dispelled once I got going.

First thing this morning, the formal announcement was made of regulatory approval for Pfizer/BioNtech's covid-19 vaccine, followed by a report being made to Parliament, setting out the priority list of categories for receiving it. It seems we're in the third category down the list which probably means a wait until early in the new year.  Medics, care workers and clinically at risk people must come first. 

The logistics of vaccine delivery from factory to hospital and GP surgery is exceedingly complex, but the growth of on-line shopping due to the pandemic has brought an expansion of delivery service capacity of every kind, and with this expertise to rise to the challenge. In the meanwhile, as the Prime Minister is keen to insist,  everyone has to continue to be very careful,  and stick with the restrictions imposed as infection numbers are still worryingly high although the growth rate is slowing. 

After lunch and a brief snooze, I collected the weekly veg bag from the drop off point, and then went for a walk down to the weir and back. It was good to see a football match being played, but just one. There may have been others earlier I guess. There are often several going on at the same time out in Pontcanna Fields on a Wednesday.

Most of England is going to be subjected to new tiered restrictions from this weekend, which are going to hit pubs and bars very heavily, and this is causing wide spread anxious complaint, given that measures are tough on so many densely populated urban communities. It's the price the government thinks has to be paid for a few days of family Christmas festivities. Curbing pub drinking hours so drastically will either see team and office Christmas parties cancelled or driven into unregulated indoor social areas, which are not so easy to police for compliance about group meetings. It'll happen in Wales too. Socialising is a desperate need for so many who live alone and have been without direct social contact for half a year. How will they react? Will this plan succeed without people quietly defying the impositions or not? And if they do will non-compliance add to infections or not? Only time can tell.