Day 16 - I can leave the house again!

Today was day 14 post symptom onset for me. The current rule is that, I’d you have had any covid19 symptoms, you must self-isolate until it is fourteen days since your symptoms started and five days since you last had a fever. So, even though I’m still waiting for my test result, this now means that I can leave the house!

I was very nervous of my planned venture into the outside world, so I left the house before 8am. I walked a thirty minute loop from the house. Helpfully, someone has already made a website where you can see where the 2km from your house extends to. I saw a few more people than I expected. Most of them seemed to be walking to the local SuperValu. The panic buying seems to have started up again this morning, after this lockdown period was announced last night. It was so nice to get out of the house again, and the sun was shining, with clear blue skies! Why is it that it has rained pretty much every day since the start off the year, but as soon as we’re put on lockdown the sun comes out?!

In the evening, Anna, Mum, Fiona, Orlaith and I did online, live Bingo Loco. It’s something I’ve been meaning to go to in “real life” for ages, so I was curious to try it out. It was good but, at two hours, probably went on a bit too long! Plus, I’m not sure that the bits where the DJ bangs out tunes from the nineties, in between the numbers getting called out, really works in the online version. If you were at the venue, you’d love dancing to the tunes, but me and Anna just wanted him to get on with calling out the numbers! The guys who present it are a bit mad actually - it all got a bit surreal at times!

I do like how many of our usual leisure pursuits have moved online recently. I wonder will many of them keep up some sort of online presence once all of this is over. For example, I will be able to do my usual Dublin strength and conditioning class next Friday, from Cork. That’ll be great, as I’ve really missed that class since moving to Cork last Summer!Read more