Thursday
Total world cases: 3,909,187-------------------101,633 increase
Total fatalities: 270,249-------------------------6,243 increase
UK total: 206,715------------------------------- 5,614 increase
UK Fatalities: 30,615--------------------------- 539 increase
Friday
Total world cases: 4,007,292-------------------98,105 increase
Total fatalities: 275,737------------------------5,022 increase
UK total: 211,364------------------------------- 4,649 increase
UK Fatalities: 31,241--------------------------- 626 increase
Saturday
Total world cases: 4,097,044-------------------89,752 increase
Total fatalities: 280,131------------------------4,394 increase
UK total: 215,260------------------------------- 3,896 increase
UK Fatalities: 31,547--------------------------- 306 increase
The figures are still going up - although apparently the curves are flattening. But as far as I can see - its not changing really....
It is difficult trying to pull anything interesting out from the news over the past couple of days - South Korea who did extremely well in this pandemic and have tried to get back to normal are closing places in the city centre again after seeing a rise in cases - a warning to the rest of us!
The rest of the news just annoys me - what the UK should have done differently, what mistakes we made - how we had to send samples to the US for testing due to lab 'issues'....blame....blame...
Its as though the reporters can't think of anything else to report about...in the USA their idiot president met with Military leaders - around a big table for a photo opportunity and proper social distancing measures were not adhered to....Obama has said that the pandemic has been a 'chaotic disaster'....so again - not really news....
So - Friday for me was crappy....me and Andy had a tiny fallout over what I was doing for our family quiz - but really it was me just being in a crappy place. I went off and fell asleep for a bit - then went off and had a bath....just feeling depressed....then we managed to forget about it - and ordered Chinese and watched TV until bedtime. So - uneventful crap day!
Saturday - I got up - the sun was shining - I felt positive and decided that I was going to have a good day!! I had a video chat with Helen, we spoke through some of the things we experienced with Dad - she isn't getting an opportunity to talk about it (which was the advice of her psychiatrist colleague) because Paul has his own issues having lost his Dad already and then a step Dad. So I tried to give her the opportunity to speak in depth about what we went through - and we both got upset at points...then we moved on and spoke about a few unrelated things before getting off the phone. I don't know if it did her any good - but I hope it did.
I then made a breakfast casserole - and stuck it in the fridge and tidied and cleaned the kitchen - then Andy got up. We went out into the garden - and the weather was glorious! we listened to music - said Hi to our guests who came and sat on their side! We cooked some chicken on the BBQ - had a few drinks - we managed to put together some Pimms and lemonade - with pieces of orange and pear!
We sat outside talking about the places we want to visit when all this madness is over - places in the UK like Cornwall - Andy really loves Newquay, I'd like to go to some quieter places, maybe lakes I can swim in (I always love anything to do with water). I was also saying that it would be great to hire a big place in Cornwall with its own bit of beach for all the family to come too.... I also fantasised about some amazing tropical beach somewhere! I've been looking up pictures online recently - just searching for clear turquoise sea - and some amazing pics come up - I just want to go to one of these places! They are usually Australia or Bali....but I don't need to go that far - any Caribbean island would be good!! We also talked about how awesome it will be when all of our kids and their partners (and their kids!) can come over and we can all just have lots of fun together - share meals, stories - just the normal stuff. We were keeping the mood good and not allowing ourselves to talk about the damn virus or anything associated to it. If I went onto that subject - Andy would stop me and we'd get back on to all the fun stuff! We played the garden game Smite too - won one each and left it there...all good fun.
As it got later - we went inside and had a game of pool for the first time in AGES....literally months. I won both games hehehe and we were part way through our 3rd game when Helen and Paul called - so we left that and sat down - and had a get-together with them (online)
This was Paul's impression of an invisible man! lol
We got off the call when our Chinese food turned up - for the second night in a row!! We have zero discipline and it's really not good....although that's the problem - the food is good and takes zero preparation!!
Anyway - today has been the best day in a long time. With short bursts of thinking of my Dad, and feeling a bit sad....and having to tell myself - don't go there....
So today (Sunday) which I will probably write about tomorrow as I always seem a day behind now, I have breakfast casserole all prepared to start the day off, and it has just gone into the oven because I can hear Andy getting up, I think we are going online on the VR and playing zombie games with H&P! lol and I have a mouse underneath the couch I am sat on because all of the cats are stalking around me - so we need to try and save it! Yesterday I tried to save something that May had got - only to find it was the wrong end of a slow worm - that was wiggling about on its own accord.
