And in the world beyond Casa Anderson ...

I feel that I should mention a few of the things that have been happening outside our own wee semi-lockdown bubble at Casa Anderson. The number of cases and deaths from Covid-19 in the UK continues to fall, to a couple of hundred a day instead of more that 1000 per day at some points in mid April. (The figure of more than 1000 a day is retrospective because deaths in care homes were added later, so in mid April about 800 - 900 per day were actually being reported. I hope that makes sense.) The number of deaths from Covid-19 is now nearing 40,000 in total. There are increasing recriminations in the media over whether the number of deaths could have been lower if the UK had gone into lockdown sooner, or if hospitals hadn’t discharged elderly people back into their care homes without testing them for the virus. This may well be true (I honestly don’t know and would not have liked to have been responsible for making the decisions) but the arguments are becoming more and more vitriolic, and I hate the hectoring tone of many participants  - I had to switch Question Time off the other evening because I couldn’t stand the way the politicians, journalists and callers were speaking to each other. Of course I understand why it is such an important and emotive subject, and if mistakes have been made they must be investigated, however the more supportive and less political atmosphere of the early days of the pandemic has certainly disappeared now.
Now that the lockdown is being eased off, hordes of people across the U.K. are congregating in crowds at the seaside and other beauty spots, with no social distancing at all. I think people are beginning to get a bit blasé about the virus, and fed up of the lockdown. I wonder if we have reached a point where enough people have had it that this will be ok, or whether the number of cases will start to rise again? We shall see.
Meanwhile, across the pond, a black man called George Floyd was killed a few days ago by a police officer kneeling on his neck for a full eight minutes, even after he stopped pleading that he couldn’t breathe and became unresponsive. It’s just awful, and similar incidents have happened so many times. There are protests all over the USA and indeed all over the world.