DVT DAY 146

August the 1st, I am now a non shielding citizen. Freedom to mix with the virus infected population, social distance, wear trendy face wear, refuse to shake hands, and wash my hands as many times as I like with out explanation or feeling obsessional. From now on I can go to pubs and not talk to strangers, dine out and be far enough away not to hear other people eat, avoid barbers and act strange and blame it on lockdown syndrome.

Of a more prosaic nature I spent my morning completing the mending of a sewing machine, most satisfying to take something apart, replace parts and make it work again. So feeling a glow of achievement I retreated to the shed to spend an hour on the exercise bike of which a quarter of an hours was done wearing my altitude training mask. A shower and I settle down to watch the cup final. Dinner and an evening of Stranger Things and running off the new sowing machine manual from the internet. Tomorrow I go BBQing at a friends house, a family outing to assert my new freedom. Other adventures will follow. I hanker after the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, museums and art galleries. My poetry project will be completed, my painting continued, and perhaps newer things embarked on.