Covid? We’re over it. As a nation. Vaccinated, drinking ‘again’, restaurants open, a bit too ‘open’ for some who don’t wish to freeze, along with their dinner, at a table by the side of the M1 as the juggernauts go screaming by, and life is resuming. We’re still wearing masks. Some of the time. I have a partial exemption on the strictly medical grounds that ‘I fucking hate them’, but life is returning to something approaching ‘normal’. Other than in the City which is still pretty desolate but is slowly, slowly coming back to a low level of ‘life’. Like a few billion years ago when the first fish grew legs and took their first few steps on land. Definitely encouraging.

So we’ll take our trip now, thank you very much, which we cancelled from last Christmas. To Kerala. In India. Oh. India. Where they’re not doing very well at the moment. In fact they are doing tragically badly, I’m sorry to report. No hospital beds, no oxygen to treat patients, massive death tolls every day, its truly awful. But I’ve been vaccinated, so I’m fine and if we have to move a few bodies out of the way to see some of the wonderful sights and take a few selfies, that’s a small price to pay.

The most ridiculous Boris thing of the whole pandemic has been the ‘we’re banning flights from this or that disease-ridden, hyper-infected, death-certain hell-hole!! From, not next Friday but the one after that!!’ Thus they announced last week that flights were to be banned from India. From 4 days time. I mean… I mean… that’s almost worse than re-decorating your flat. WE’RE A FUCKING ISLAND; ISOLATING IS EASY!!!

Ok, India’s out then. Like, totally. Brazil. South Africa. Germany. France. Italy. No way I’m going to any of those countries. Or any others really, because if the rules change, you’re stuffed when you get home. If they allow you home. Spain is re-opening in June for Brits, using a new ‘digital health certificate’ which bears absolutely no relation whatsoever to a ‘covid passport’, at all. Because for some reason, the term ‘passport’ causes masses of upset among the woke, the hypersensitive, those who cry ‘discrimination’ at every opportunity and other assorted stupid people, whereas ‘certificates’ are fine and ‘health’ is a word linked to the national HEALTH service and is thus filled with love and clapping and banging frying pans.

We’ve booked to go to Israel in October. Cancellable flights. Vaccinated country. It’s still a punt but we live in hope.

Happy normal Wednesday

A xxxx