Oh Sunny, bless you and thanks for responding and I am glad that you are alright.

I pray for your family and in particular your sister-in-law who has a lot on her plate and may she keep safe. You are obviously a very close nit family and I admire that.

Yes, we are in lockdown here in the UK. It is frightening. I look out of my window and there are cars and vans in the drives of the home which are only there at the weekends but now, of course, they are all staying at home unless their work is essential.

I am lucky as I live in a village and the best thing about village life there is more of a community spirit and my neighbours are doing my shopping as I shouldn't go out for 3 weeks being 71, although I am not in the vulnerable age group. There is also a voluntary service set up for each street in the village with a name and telephone number of who will do our shopping if needed and leaflets were posted through our letterboxes.

The government has also set up a voluntary service for those in the "at-risk category" who received a list from their doctor informing them to stay indoors so they will be looked after with regards to their shopping and collection of medication.

Other people are allowed to go out for exercise once a day only and to walk their dog but they are to keep their distance. By encouraging so many of us to self-isolate we will not be infected and therefore our hospitals will not be overloaded. Children are not even meeting with their elderly parents even if they are doing their shopping and they are leaving the shopping on the doorstep. I know for a fact that this is true as my friend told me that is what her daughter does, so yes we are taking these precautions seriously.

I am surprised at how quickly things are moving and our government is doing the best it can and people are staying in. Police now have emergency powers to stop vehicles and question people as to whether their journey out is necessary and to ask groups of people to go indoors.

I wish you and your family well and I too pray for all of the people worldwide that we keep the number of deaths as low as possible and hopefully, a vaccine in the not too distant future for this dreadful virus.


Dare I say have a nice day? I hope so.

H