Loo rolls left: enough for the time being.

Our Prime Minister interrupted Coronation Street last night (so it has to be serious) to tell us that as of today the United Kingdom is in lock-down. More or less, details were a bit vague – work from home, unless you can’t, but only go to work if you are an essential worker. unless you work on a construction site, in which case it is apparently fine, because we need to keep the economy moving, or something. Now I am as keen as anyone to see our (AFC Wimbledon’s) new stadium completed in time for my birthday, but I don’t think that it is essential, or even, in the overall scheme of things important. The rest of the world is not exactly impressed either.

How has my first day in lock-down been? I received a text message last night from my team manager telling me, that in light of the announcement, to cancel all appointments for today and tomorrow, and to await instructions. After speaking to him it appears that we have been getting contradictory messages from the government about whether we (Engineer Surveyors) are essential workers or not. A meeting between the Inspection Authorities and the Government was being held.

I did a bit of “work” mainly down loading various collaborative tools that we couldn’t make work. we eventually fell back on something called WebEx, which is a bit clunky but did work.

After lunch (cheese toasties) we went all domestic and cleaned all the downstairs windows, inside and out. We also cut back a lot of over-hanging bushes and ivy, but that was before we found that the council would not be collecting garden waste for the foreseeable future. Minor mistake.

We then decided to take our daily permitted excursion for exercise and took our bikes along to Raynes Park. We also managed to find some milk, some veggies and tea bags. I arrived back to find a message asking me to log in to a conference call. The message of which was that some clarity about our status has been achieved but not a lot. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

Dinner, in the spirit of the times was left overs. Left over veggie curry from two days ago, with left over rhubarb (from the allotment) crumble from yesterday. It was fine, but we might have steak tomorrow.