Coronavirus Rainbow
Jan picked up this piece of
wood on one of our local walks. Her
project on one of our many wet days recently was to convert it into a Coronavirus
Rainbow. It now stands in the porch of
our front door.
Saturday 18 April
There was a lot of speculation
that the lockdown restrictions would be relaxed on 26 April. Today there was an announcement that it
would only apply to young children. The
rest of us to remain under house arrest.
We follow three main stream
Facebook for our information about the crisis.
So far almost all comments have been in support of the
restrictions. And when anyone voiced any
disagreement the usual response was along the lines of “if you don’t like
bugger off back to the UK”.
However the response to this
has been different. For the first time
there are wide spread comments about how unfair it would be on adults. It would be nice to think that this might
result in pressure on government to adopt a more relaxed attitude, similar to
the rest of Europe.
Sunday 19 April
The rumblings of discontent
continue about the extension of full lockdown for adults. According to our daily podcast, who pride
themselves on checking facts, it has been discussed by government.
Some local government are
demanding that the restrictions be relaxed for adults as well as children. But the official response is that people
cannot be trusted not to abuse any relaxing of the restrictions. I was really surprised to see that quite a
few people agreed with this on Facebook.
Imagine the response if a UK
politician made such a statement. And
given how strictly the police here in Spain enforce the regulations, it is much
less likely that anyone would get away with any abuse of any relaxing of the
restrictions.
Not reading Spanish
sufficiently to follow the local newspapers, we have to rely on Facebook for
translations. But I am really surprised
that the Spanish, who I always considered anything but strictly law abiding,
seem to be taking this really drastic lockdown so well. Of course it might well be that many locals
simply ignore the rules, much as they do with driving and parking.
We are still hoping that the
restrictions might be relaxed on 26 April, but it is now looking very unlikely.
Monday 20 April
Jan has put in an order for a
home delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables from a local tradesman. We have never used this before, but she saw
it on Facebook and it would delay having to go to Masymas in Jalon for another
few days.
She was quite excited at the
prospect, and spent morning looking out of the window. We didn’t have to stay home to wait for him,
we are not allowed to leave the house anyway.
At midday she finally rang to find out where he was, and he told her
that today was a festival and where he collects the food from was closed. So much for a local tradesman, you would
think he would know that.
It say’s much for how much our
lives have closed in that we give a second thought to such a thing, let alone
spend all morning looking out of the window
Tuesday 21 April
There
was an announcement today on our, so far, reliable daily podcast. From 26 April children aged 14 and below
will be allowed to accompany an adult for essential shopping or to visit a
chemist. So much for young children
being allowed outside to exercise. Looks
like supermarkets in particular will soon be packed with noisy children.
Completed
the fifth lockdown video this morning.
It covers two walks from November 2019, namely Bolulla castle and Denia
to Javea windmills. The background
music this week is The Shadows Foot Tapper.
You can find the video on YouTube by following this link:
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