It’s December 14th 2020 and I’m having some good cake and coffee in the coffee shop.

My car fuel tank is full, I have weeks of food, there’s no alcohol in my flat, and I have two jars of pickled onions. Thinking about it, I’m going to need more pickled onions. I’ll see what M&S have in an effort to substitute pickles for booze in my last chance to have a beer before Christmas. The reason is to keep the parents safe for when I visit during the Christmas Covid Window, or as it will become know as, the most predictable and avoidable virus superspreading event of the pandemic.

This year I’m lucky enough and unlucky enough to stay away from people for nine to ten days. My own personal lockdown will see busier streets than lockdown 1 and even lockdown 2. When I go out for my excercise, which I always imagine that I’ll be doing, the roads will be congested and the air will have a new flavour, and that’s about it. The TV and radio coverage will be all over the madness when the self righteous can boast about how they are not like the plebs. Then we can discuss this at out leisure when the third wave takes hold, wondering where the promised vaccines are and why they haven’t arrived at the doctor’s surgery. I can’t think of any reasons why they wouldn’t be.

To get you up to speed – theUK Goverment have asked the virus to take five days off from December 23rd – 27th so that we can spread the virus and re-instate how much of a Christian country we are before we find out just how wonderful Brexit is going to be. All of this is after the partial success of lockdown 2.0 and the failure of the 3-Tier local system. London is due to go in to Tier 3 – because the regional tier system doesn’t work – just in time to have an official five day relaxation of the rules. This is going to get a bit messy. But as long as I’m not responsible for any of this I’ll happily write about it.

I have nine days to focus on worthwhile tasks. All I need to do is give myself permission to get stuck in and not think about everything that’s going on. Something good will come out of the rest of the year. Good things have to happen, because I’m not overly positive about 2021.