Cambridge City Hazards

 Every area in the UK has now been put into a category telling the inhabitants what they should do to avoid spreading Covid19.The problem is that only Liverpool seems to have received precise instructions and everywhere else is waiting until they receive further information. We are clueless in Cambridge.

It is disturbing to learn that expert scientific advice was given to the government to take much sterner methods on 21st September .Once again Boris Johnson  is behind the curve .He might decide to order a major lockdown from 24th October. What a mess this man is. He appeared on TV with his peroxide bleached hair visibly dropping out of his skull looking as one journalist noted "as if he has had a fight with a cat"

We have had three holidays cancelled ,the few days in Aldeburgh we have booked in early November look as if they might be cancelled now.

We went into  Cambridge  city early this morning to get an influenza jab followed by a coffee and delicious pain au raisin in Patisserie Valerie to help me recover. 

The University students are back and in my view represent an immediate threat to the citizens. Wandering about in large groups, not wearing masks they think nothing of shoving old ladies like me in to the gutter to avoid stepping aside. Some use the city streets as their personal running track, breathing heavily and puffing all over other pavement users. There are plenty of parks and open spaces available to them in this city.

There are other sources of infection too, the Big Issue sellers shouting at passers by, no masks again Outside supermarkets are carefully placed aggressive beggars, no distancing and no masks .Doorways of empty shops are full of rough sleepers with mounds of filthy bedding , stinking of urine and accompanied by flea infested dogs. A few minutes  observation will soon inform you that many of these people are actually drug dealers and addicts.

The authorities do nothing to clean up and deal any of these issues.

Poppy Brooch Kit

The poppy brooch crochet kit has arrived, so has the instruction book I sent for from Amazon, it is incomprehensible resembling instructions for constructing nautical knots. By the far the best instructions can be found on YouTube.