At last the 'shortest day!'
Naturally it is wet, chilly, dank, dreich and not improving the well-being of those venturing out to what few shops remain open in Tier 4 Land. Cars splash along the street, people take great steps to avoid one another as well as the cars heading for large puddles, and blessings abound with the short-term employed in the checkouts.
Such a happy day for from tomorrow the nights get shorter the days longer and Spring is just around the corner. Sunshine, blue skies, bright days and lockdown for all!
And Brexit poverty on top for us all!
I just canny wait for that...
It is interesting to see how many nations are no longer wishing to accept travellers from the 'English Free State.' I read that 40 or so countries have banned contact, France has closed the Dover crossing, and the only ones to fly out are the Tory Brexiteer cheerleaders who have ceased claiming the virus is a hoax and the vaccine does not work for a week or two having escaped to their money in the Cayman Islands or somewhere. I am sure they will not be missed but I feel for the servants they look down upon in foreign lands.
This is a taste of Brexit to come. With inadequate customs staff, computer systems not ready, lack of knowledge of paperwork required, hundreds of miles of lorries carrying decaying foodstuffs one way or the other, and overworked and short staffed employees attempting to counter the virus while at work it looks like a jolly old Christmas at the ports.
I empathise with companies that still do not understand what to do. Information is lacking because nobody knows what to do anywhere. Thousands of pieces of paper required to export, but what papers? Will the customs know any better? What will the French understand?
My nephew is glad he no longer drives big lorries, though he never went abroad. It is a hard life on the road, especially if you only speak Romanian!
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the Winter Solstice is always one to celebrate. A terrible day here as well, too wet for a celebratory bike ride so it was a wet walk instead.
Sunny here....but looking forward to the days lengthening. Only 10 degrees north of the equator but enough to make a difference to daylight hours.
I see we have the usual suspect driving the hysteria over the mutation...properly qualified and experienced medics on the continent pooh pooh the whole thing as having no proof of either mass contagion - no way to obtain enough evidence as yet - or virulence - ditto.
They also say that it could be rife in Europe too, but their sequencing agencies aren't up to the job of finding out!
Dave, Six minutes more light today, well apart from the clouds.
Fly, Sunny? What's that?
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