Legal Lockdown

 Wednesday January 6

The first day of legal lockdown - when one can be fined for breaking the rules. Hm. Will it stop people driving to the North Norfolk coast to 'exercise', or to the nearest nature reserve to exercise their dogs? I doubt it. Councils are already considering closing car parks due to the number of visitors yesterday.

We are not without fault. Yesterday was prescription collection day, legal. Shopping for food - legal. But, what we shopped for was bird food. Was that OK? Not strictly. Especially not from Van Der in Melton Constable, that's not local. It does mean that we can continue to feed our birds during the next cold weeks. Getting the bird food online is much more expensive, and lays us open to many more itinerant drivers and deliverers. A pair of Blackcaps and the male Brambling amongst to-day's garden visitors.

A last visit to a feeding station for some time.We have plans to try and train our garden birds to be as amenable.

Nuthatch

 

 

Female Chaffinch

 

 

Marsh Tit

Great Tit and Coal Tit

 

A regular provider of food here, who knows nothing about birds, had left carrots and apples for the Muntjacs. She'd fed the birds which is the important part, and does so daily.

 

I had arranged for MPB to buy a couple of my old lenses - too heavy and/or don't work on my present SLR, despite being the same make. Arranged before lockdown, to-day was the DPD collection day. We left the box in the porch, avoiding contact. The driver - unmasked - rang the bell until Pam answered. She then had to wait whilst he produced a receipt, another copy of which he stuck on the box. At arms length. BUT.

Collecting the prescriptions yesterday, Pam was told that delivery of the Covid vaccine should be made shortly, and that we would be phoned next week. That would be good. The new normal is perfectly acceptable to us, we do miss our friends, emails and phone calls mean a lot. We are lucky to be so well looked after by Sam and Adrian and Justine.