I've travelled around since lockdown was derestricted. A few observations:
TRAVEL
*WAH - Outlook abbreviation for Working At Home
- Boarding a train when half the people on the platform were not wearing masks.
- Another train where everyone followed the rules.
- Seeing a number 57 bus with one passenger
- Almost forgetting to wear a mask to go into a petrol station
- Hardly ever re-fuelling the car
- Waiting for streams of WAH* golfers to cross at that usually quiet pedestrian crossing
- Passing my empty ex-commuter car-park at 15:20 when it would normally have 500+ cars
- Driving along an empty M25
- Seeing the warning signs for the Channel Ferries saying lorries can't cross because of capacity limits
- Seeing the warning signs for Operation stack (where they use the M20 as a lorry park)
- Travelling outside on the deck of a ferry (like most passengers) without wearing a mask
REFRESHMENTS
- Using the self-managed quick scan in bars to show attendance for tracks and trace.
- Getting used to quickly assessing a bar's capability to handle social distancing (1=token, 4=reliable)
- Being overwhelmed by the number of instruction messages outside a hotel's reception
- Being surprised at the variety of different schemes used by restaurants to implement their opening policies.
- Being surprised by several times qualifying for the 'eat-out' rebates of £10 per person.
- Seeing no pedestrians around the shopping centre.
- Watching sports fans crowd around a football ground, not wearing masks.
- Mainly empty beaches, or at least socially distanced beaches
- Watching a socially distanced open-air theatre show
- Being turned away from National Trust for not booking
- Being able to get into Tate without prior booking (thank you!)
- Mostly conducting regular get-togethers via Zoom
- Discussing the mise-en-scène of Zoom setups
- Discussing getting one of those Dan Dare face plexi-shields
- Deciding that it ain't normal.
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