Bank Holiday again

The mask debacle continues. There's been a complete u-turn on masks in schools.

When schools go back next week secondary pupils in England may, at the Head's discretion, be required to wear masks in communal areas... except if you live in an area where there's a local lockdown, in which case they're mandatory. For schools in Scotland and N Ireland masks are mandatory in communal areas and on school buses, but not required in classrooms. In Wales... who knows, because they can't make their bloody minds up.

Now, have you got all that? Keep up, I'll be asking questions later!

I thought masks/face coverings (even though completely unnecessary) should only be worn once and then be washed or binned. So, every child will have a stack of masks because they'll need a clean one each time they leave a classroom, right? Yeah... that's not going to happen, is it?

What will happen, is grubby little oiks will shove them in their pockets and use the same one all day or quite possibly all week; they'll probably even share one with their mates. Yuk! That'll really help in containing the almost non-existent virus.

Someone didn't think this through, did they?

Laughably, Boris is almost pleading with people to go back to their offices instead of working from home. He can see the damage he's done to city centres and he's panicking. After scaring people to death five months ago, he's discovered he can't just switch off people's fear, nor can he make them want to spend £1000s in getting to work when they're quite happy WFH, thank you very much!

If you want things back to normal Boris, ditch the social distancing and masks. You're giving mixed messages, matey. Either things are normal or they're not - you can't have it both ways.

It's Bank Holiday weekend, which accounts for it being cold, miserable and pouring with rain! Two weeks ago we were complaining about the heat and now things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous! My poor tomatoes, currently shivering in a northerly wind and driving rain, will never ripen without some warmth and sun for a few days.

I might make some soup or maybe a curry - warm us up a bit.

Oh, and just to prove summer's officially over, John Lewis have opened up their online Christmas shop this week! It's still only August, for goodness sake...!