When Lois and I speak Danish to each other now – which is more exciting than it sounds by the way - we sound more and more like we’ve both got a hot potato in our mouths - this is the acid test of whether somebody is “doing it properly” or not.
What a crazy people the Danes are – but we love them !!!!
11:00 I try a ride on my exercise bike, 6 miles – it’s part of my research. I want to see how I get on, because I have to complete a questionnaire for the local NHS physiotherapy department. I want them to prescribe the appropriate exercises for me to help me with my current leg strain issues. The ride goes well, but afterwards I feel some discomfort – damn! Back to the drawing board!!!!
12:30 We have lunch. Lois says she’s been listening to the BBC
Radio 4 consumer programme “You and Yours”, on which it was said people are
starting to book up supermarket delivery slots again, ahead of the feared “Second
Wave”.
We test this news out by logging onto the Sainsbury’s website – we discover that it’s true that they are booked up till some time on Saturday, but if you can wait 4 days, there are plenty of slots available: we book a delivery on Sunday afternoon and think of some products we need that we can't get from Budgens. We get our main grocery delivery from the Budgens convenience store in the village on Saturday mornings, but if necessary we can amend our Sainsbury order on Saturday evening, if Budgens has run out of anything we want desperately. Simples!
For environmental reasons Sainsbury’s don’t use plastic bags when they bring your groceries now, so you have to put out some e.g. wooden or cardboard boxes out in your front porch. The delivery guy dumps the groceries in your boxes, rings your door bell, says hello and then waves goodbye. Suits us !!!!
I don’t think there’s any comparison at the moment with the panic-buying seen earlier in the year. All the supermarkets have plenty of additional vans and drivers, compared to 6 months ago. And Iceland Supermarket emailed me just yesterday to confirm that they have 100’s of slots available.
20:00 Lois disappears into the dining-room to take part in her sect’s weekly Bible Class on zoom. This gives me a chance to watch last Friday’s “Gogglebox”. We always used to watch it, but Lois had got fed up with it now.
Last week the Gogglebox pundits were all watching “Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire” in which a history and politics teacher won the million pound prize,
a prize that doesn’t get won very often.
Of all the amateur TV critics that are Gogglebox regulars, the ones we have always identified most with are Giles and Mary, an older couple who live in Wiltshire.
When the “Millionaire” contestant is introduced by presenter Jeremy Clarkson as a “history and politics teacher who’s also an enormous fan of both Genesis and Pink Floyd”, Giles realizes that he’s got something in common with the contestant.
Giles’s wife Mary, however is critical about the way the contestant
is introduced on the show with only a scant attempt to sketch in his personal
background.
We think Mary gets fed up with Giles every so often. And on
tonight’s programme she reveals that she’d like to get a lodger to rent a room
in their house, to dilute the claustrophobic
atmosphere a little. Giles, however, suspects that Mary would eventually
have an affair with the lodger, and so the proposal is dropped.
We see the couple react to the possibility of the feared “Second Wave” of the pandemic. Mary doesn’t want to let it stop her travelling. Giles is rather like me, in that he has no desire to get out and about – and he thinks it’s safer for old people to stay in and hide, so that the young people can then move about freely.
Lois and I suspect however, that it’s all in fun – Giles likes to
tease Mary, no doubt about that!
Naughty Giles!!!!
22:00 We go to bed – zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!
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