Yesterday was the first day of the lockdown.
I stepped out of the house for my first ever state-sanctioned dog walk (one per day!) at 6.30am expecting the village and surrounding roads to be a scene of blissful peace and quiet.
I was quite wrong. The lane outside my house and the main road into the village was very busy with cars. All of which seemed to be travelling well above the speed limit.
The village itself was just as "busy" (i.e. a few people about) as usual with the normal newspaper buyers coming out of their houses and walking down to the post office.
Cars and vans were parked, as usual, on yellow lines so the workers could pop into the bakery.
I was pleased to get home to some actual peace and quiet.
Jim had bought Roku device for the TV and we are now subscribed to Disney+. That should help us through the coming weeks!
This morning I left the house at the same time as the day before but things were very different. Traffic was below normal levels. Everywhere was quiet. I saw only one person in the whole village (a jogger on his state-sanctioned jog). The fish and chip shop had a sign in the window that they had closed down (I saw on Facebook last night they had been giving their stock away free the day before). There was a sign way out from the door of the butchers by the main road saying "Please observe social distancing rules." The bakers, the magnet to every white-van man in the local area, was closed, display shelves empty in the window and the parking bays in front empty. The post office had a sign outside limiting the number of people inside to 4. And on the way home one of the cottages we pass had put up a slightly off-kilter "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster ("Keep Calm and Stay Home" would've been more appropriate!).
The day passed quietly with very little to report other than Jim making the most divine Lemon Love Crumble cakes. YUM.
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