Self isolation with my e-book and computers is mostly what I normally do but I am taking my temperature morning and evening and using essential oils to monitor my sense of smell. My diet is a bit erratic since I no longer just pop downstairs if I need something for dinner but there is fruit and vegetables in abundance. Milk is rationed and butter is in short supply (are all the cows in lockdown?) and I am assuming that the New Zealand butter which I use will become unobtainable along with toilet paper and tissues which seem to disappear as soon as they hit the shelves. Minor annoyances.
More upsetting is the fact that D2 will be back at work after some time on sick leave and she will be at the forefront of the medical workforce. She is going into self-isolation and has asked me to fire up Skype so that she can see familiar faces but I threw away my earphone/mic set a while ago and there has been a run on them and none are available at the moment. Hopefully there will be some more available soon or it will have to be telephone contact as we both have retro phones with very little display.
The trousers which I bought online are stuck in Singapore but they are safe and will not self-destruct. The thing which I have been hoarding is kitty litter and cat food. And I bought a teddy bear to sit on the window sill as a signal that I am self-isolating. Not that any passing raven or white cockatoo will understand the symbolism.
The cats were due for their vaccinations this week and Parsifal had his turn on Wednesday, sedated but still managed to scratched me. Poppy had her turn today, also heavily sedated and when I suggested to Dr L. that perhaps I could hold her still in the kitty carriage while she injected the vaccine and perhaps we could skip the health check she sounded very relieved so we all parted unscathed.
The Limerick:-
A crossword composer named Moss
At joking was quite at a loss.
When asked why 'twas true
He hadn't a clue.
He was two down to put one across.
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