Disaster! My mobile phone (in its case) slipped out of
my pocket and managed to land on a tiled floor in such a way that it came out
of its case and smashed the mirrored back.
So much for my Huawei P20 Pro.
It’s still working, with an artistically crazed back and a large
cavernous gap between the front and the back.
I will have to investigate to find out if there is any way in which it
can be salvaged – it is after all working perfectly well; it is only the case
that is broken. I am not confident, and
I expect to be both disappointed and angry at the built-in obsolescence or
intentional difficulty in repairing it. But,
at the moment I have done no investigation to find out what is possible. Perhaps I will surprise myself.
My
bike ride this morning was again relatively quiet with few people joining me in
their period of exercise. The evenings
are much fuller and more crowded with an age-blind selection of people walking,
running and cycling. When I go out only
adults aged 16? to 69 should be there – but cafes and restaurants along the sea
front are open and the whole family, regardless of age, can go to those so the
discipline of lockdown is being made slacker by the day.
According to our government, we will
progress to the next stage of loosened restriction on Monday. The progression is measured by days and not
my figures. There seems to be an
assumption that the virus will be subject to a daily reduction in a whole area
in an almost sequential way.
As far as I can observe people in
Castelldefels have already moved to the next level in their behaviour, so
Monday’s new regulations will only make official what they are already doing.
For
the first time for over three months we went to one of our favourite
bar/restaurants for tapas and a drink.
We were outside, as restaurants are still not using interiors. Even though the tables were generously
spaced, it still felt as though we were getting nearer to some sort of
normality, some sort of New Normality.
