Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Tuesday 7 April:


Mr Johnson was taken into intensive care last night with worsening coronavirus symptoms (I’m no lover of his politics, but I wish him well). Somewhat ironically, yesterday also saw receipt of Mr Johnson’s ‘letter to the nation’ telling us all that the government was doing and urging everyone to obey the rules. Frankly, I’m appalled at the expense of sending such a letter (to every household) – there can’t be a single adult in the country who didn’t already know this ‘information’. It was perhaps doubly ironic that I also received a letter (see extract image) from the North Bristol NHS Trust advising me (although I already knew) that the NHS had identified me “as someone at risk of severe illness if you catch coronavirus… This is because you have an underlying disease or health condition that means if you catch the virus, you are more likely to be admitted to hospital than others. The safest course of action is for you to stay at home at all times and avoid face-to-face contact for at least 12 weeks from today…”. I have been warned!
Internet ‘stopped’ at lunchtime for at least a couple of hours (but now appears to be ok again)… and, suddenly, you realise how difficult losing connection altogether would be in our current times.
Drawing Group ‘home task’ was draw a self-portrait. I tried to produce a quick line drawing – but had to add pencil shading to try to mask a poor sketch. Hey ho! Did another couple of sketches too… AND I managed to dip my paintbrush in my cup of tea. Doh!
Anti-clockwise evening walk around the harbourside… hardly anyone about.
Early to bed to read.

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