Monday 20th April
Work at home all day, more relaxed than previous working days since colleagues respond to the number of new complaints that I have received by offering to call some complainants, ensuring that our target response time is achieved. 41 existing complainants leave voicemail messages over the weekend, mostly about music and parties. Some folk in Leicester deal with lockdown by partying. Many messages are not brief, and it takes 58 minutes just to listen and to note the details. After work I am ready for this afternoon’s dog walk. We are 
lucky to have such easy access to the natural world, and spend some time photographing a kestrel perched on a fence post just yards from us. A friend phones tonight. She has a very busy social life under normal circumstances, out nightly in drama groups, dance, coaching and playing football. Now she fills her socially-isolated evenings by calling a different friend every night. There is good news about a couple of reported local Covid 19 cases. They are not Covid 19. A friend’s son’s Covid 19 turned out to be measles (some symptoms are apparently similar) and the closure of the local post office, announced by a notice to be because of “Coronavirus”, appears to be some sort of business decision. No need to panic then.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
