Monday 6 April:

According to the government website: as of 5pm on 5 April 2020, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 5,373 have died (an increase 439 since yesterday).

I’ve been waking up ridiculously early recently (not altogether an unusual thing for me!)… at around 3am. Sometimes I’m able to go back to sleep but, more often than not, I end up lying awake until 5am and then getting up.

Spent part of the morning sketching – using another streetview image from Madrid – and listening to music (I’ve really enjoyed re-discovering stuff and have ended up compiling another four Spotify playlists).

Received a lovely Hugo delivery this morning – both fruit and vegetables (we’ve been out of fruit for the last few days). It made us feel very happy (see image)!

On our daily walk this afternoon, we came across a depressing number of young lads (perhaps aged 14-16?)(and, yes, I do understand how frustrating it must be for them) congregating in groups/ambling around together – COMPLETLY disregarding the social distancing ‘rules’… and certainly not exercising! In fact a couple of the lads were actually walking with their arms round each others’ shoulders! Not exactly surprising, perhaps, but SO depressing nevertheless.

I’ve set up another ‘virtual’ Urban Sketchmeet event (for Easter Saturday)… again using google/streetview. This time, the location is Taipei (Jennifer’s home city). Fingers crossed that the technology works!