Lockdown day #53 'Bank Holiday Friday'

Another glorious day - usually when we have Bank Holiday on a Monday it rains - but the only usual Friday Bank Holiday is Good Friday - the weather for that was great, and the weather today is good too ... so maybe Bank Holidays should move to Fridays ... instead of Mondays.

The reason for the change to a Friday for the Bank Holiday was to commemorate (celebrate?) the 75th Anniversary of VE-day.  One national newspaper was calling "Victory over Europe Day"!  There were a good number of Union Flags and English flags adorning people's homes and the jingoistic attitude that Britain stood alone against Hitler.  Except of course that was not true.  By VE-day there were over 60 nations (together with colonies and protected states) standing against fascism!

I had a quiet day working on my computer settings (it has to be done), and had a couple of telephone conversations.  I went for a walk and chatted with a friend who was in his garden (and I on the pavement). 

At 9pm, Queen Elizabeth II spoke to the nation - exactly 75 years since her father did the same on VE day, 1945.

I listened to some music on YouTube - Jonathan Scott's VE Day Organ Recital, Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei and Dan Jones' SS-GB theme tune.

I should have been going on holiday today to Blackpool - but needless to say this was cancelled.

Lockdown day #52

Today should have election day - but the elections have been postponed until next year.  In 2021 we shall be fighting the 2020 elections AND the 2021 elections ... I hope those who have bungled dealing with this virus are punished in those elections!  There is talk of relaxing the lockdown, but I feel that it is too soon.  All the British press seem delighted by the prospect - will they be so delighted when there is a second peak of Covid-19?  Of course it will never be "their" fault!  These are today's headlines:

I began the day by watching a Live Osprey Nest Cam, from Loch Arkaig.  It is fascinating watching!

I watched the episode of Fortunes of War set in Greece, and the film Women of the Night on YouTube.  The film Women of the Night was quite a bizarre film, set in Shanghai between VE-day and VJ-day with some Germans still serving there and planning to restore a "Fourth Reich".

I received an email from the Liberal Democrats with their updated Safeguarding Policy, and in the post details of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway PLC Annual General Meeting (I am a shareholder) - the second AGM I am being asked NOT to attend!

... and thus to bed ...