When Saturday Comes

The headline title would normally be associated with football and the excitement of live sport. I could watch a game at 12.30, 3.00 and 5.30 with another from Europe at 7.30 or 8.00. Now I would find that excessive and would not actually spend the day watching 4 games but suddenly Saturday comes and in some ways, it doesn't differ from other days of the week and that is after just a short time with the postponement of sporting fixtures. I think it is just 10 days since Arsenal and Man City was called off. So Saturday now means something else for a little while, may be a bit longer than that.

I managed a 4.5 mile run yesterday in Wimborne and also a lovely bike ride with Glen and Maria later in the day, once I'd got back from digging the allotment.

The work on the attic is going well and the stairs are in.

There continues to be uncertainty around the arrangements at schools with a longer list of key workers published than perhaps anticipated. However, it is also the case that not all the children of key workers are required to attend to school, it is there for those families for whom alternative arrangements are difficult, especially as calling on grandparents is considered, rightly, as a poor option given their status as vulnerable groups.

The same is true of the economic package which appears to leave huge problems for the self-employed in particular. On the other hand, it is difficult to be too critical as plans emerge at speed and not everything can be resolved at once. In fairness, the package announced is one which would have been completely unimaginable in the past and gives some support to the claim by the govt that it is prepared to do what it takes to get the public through this. This time it feels as if we are in it together to a far greater degree.

However, there is a feeling that this is catch up and a public enquiry, which I am sure will be called once things have settled, will focus on the complacency shown early on while China suffered leading to tardy actions which were planned on the hoof when provision for the future could have been made earlier. Easy to say with hindsight but there were clearly many voices warning we were going too easy and too slowly in reacting to the emerging evidence.