Everyone is getting their first hair cut since lockdown. The hair dressers have all been fully booked since 4 July. Many are working extended hours to cope with the backlog combined with the reduced capacity. Hil got her appointment this week.
I spent the day In Hawth. We installed hand sanitizers around the gym and placed signs on the wall (keep your distance). It was weird to go back in there. I am looking forward to actually teaching some gymnastics in there.
As "normality" has begun to make a reappearance, the Friday Zoom socials have continued. I am quite pleased about this, and I hope we will keep it going a while longer. I suspect it will be me that has to pull out once I work on Friday evenings.
Face masks will be obligatory in shops after 25 July, which is a bit of a turnaround for the government. I think it has proved impractical to maintain a social distance (not that we're sure how far that is any more) in some situations. Hil is fully in favour of this, and has spent the weekend making loads of washable, reusable masks.
The number one film at the US cinema box offices is "The Empire Strikes Back". This film was released in 1980. There have been no film releases in the last four moths, so the cinemas that have been able to open have been showing old movies.
We visited Hil's mother and walked with her to the park for a socially distanced picnic. It was gently raining, so we sheltered under a tree. We took camp chairs, camp table. We each took our own food; we had home made bread rolls filled with smoked salmon, lettuce and mayonnaise. Followed by this was home made cheese puffs. It's a strange habit, but I try not to drink too much water before I leave the house, it can be hard to find a toilet.