I’ve been humming the Bonjour song from Beauty and the Beast all friggin’ morning and it’s driving me nuts!
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Three-word slogan
Hands. Face. Space. Get a test. And self-isolate. If you have symptoms.
As slogans go, it is perhaps the most confusing of Boris Johnson’s lockdown soundbites – which is saying something for a campaign whose previous tripartite offerings include the widely derided “Stay alert, control the virus, save lives”, the disappointing sequel to “Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives”.
Bonne fête, la Suisse ??
Yesterday was Swiss national day. The eve of which all shops close early and mess up your berry pavlova making plans. A day where everything should be shut (but nobody told the vendors in the weekly farmer’s market, thereby reviving your berry pavlova plans).
Clan Jones and clan Grogan-Cote met up at clan Lannutti for a great evening of friends, food (!!, including the berry pavlova and the boozy pineapple), wine, laughter and lots of doggy kisses.
Lily was a major center of attention and she loves every minute of it. She loved walking home in the middle of a downpour at 1am a lot less, but she got a good towelling off and she’s going to have a quiet day today, probably like a lot of people.
Chilling with not-my-dog
She wasn’t sure, at first, but I think she liked it:
I call this one “sleeping symmetry”:
The cynicism, it burns
Critics denounced the timing of Trump’s election comments as a distraction that came amid the disastrous economic report and hours ahead of the funeral of the revered civil rights and voting rights leader Congressman John Lewis. It also coincided with the preparations for a retreat by federal law enforcement agents from Portland, Oregon.
1st headline:
Quickly followed by:
Running
Since the gym is still closed, I’ve started running to try and get some sort of exercise when I’m working from home. I’m not a fast runner, but at least my pace is consistent. I’m working on increasing my distance now. I can do 2k without problem, and today I added an extra lap, up to 2.4k. I’m going to try and get to 5k by the end of the year.
A man and his not-his-dog
Also note the pasty whiteness of the legs that rarely see the light of day.
when you can’t find exactly what you want
Plague-free (so far)
Took the opportunity offered from work to get an antibody screening test for covid-19. The possible outcomes were either no exposure, exposed and infectious or exposed and no longer infectious. So far, I haven’t been exposed at all – with the caveat being the 5% false positive/negative rate and if I’ve been exposed within the last 72 hours, it would be too early to detect. Still, good news so far, touch wood.
The classic British pub carpet
I told Suttipong that I loved his shirt, but that it was also very reminiscent of a British pub carpet. He wasn’t quite sure what that meant, but after a quick Google Image Search, he agreed with me. So did the Irish and English expat colleagues we ran into this morning.