I've been pleased up till now to see that the SW has consistently had the lowest rate of hospital cases etc. in the UK. I was less pleased yesterday to see that the R0 rate in the SW is among reckoned to be the highest, at 0.76. All the more reason to keep on following the guidance (if we can understand it, as Lynne says). Mind you, I've no idea how they work that out so maybe I'd best just ...
For once I have to agree with leatash - NZ is over 1000 miles from Oz so it was easy to shut the border. We have a land border with another country.
The red/pink at dawn yesterday was lovely as well. Thanks DEEDOODLE.
As a 75-year-old who is 'shielding' atm, I'm with HuwMatthews2 on this one.
I wouldn't have a problem with it but I haven't got a smartphone so I couldn't use it anyway. There must be a lot of people like me, who can't get traced.
Quite a row going on between our great Chief Constable and Anne-Marie MP over driving to take exercise or to walk the dog. When the lockdown was brought in, I thought 'that's ok, I can drive up on to Haldon, put the car where there's no others, and walk, keeping well away from any other people I might meet. Silly me. Our ostrich-like CC declared this was 'not in the spirit [whatever that ...
Spotlight interviewed a Devon farmer the other evening, and asked him if British workers ever came to pick the berries. He said 'yes, but they don't last more than 2-3 days'.
Thank you Paul, and the same to you.
Yes, lovely DEEDOODLE, thanks for posting.
Have to say, normally on a sunny morning (like today's) the sky is pretty full of con trails. Today, not a one.