Do as I say, not as I do

[shewhomust]

The six o'clock news tells me that the police have handed out a thousant fines for breaches of the sicial distancing rules. It didn't explain whether those who offered explanations as plausible as those given by Robert Jenrick were excused. I ought to be angry about Jenrick, but I think the story just illustrates how hard privileged people (people who are even more privileged than I am) find it to understand that rules do apply to them, that other people may have equally preessing needs to bend or break the rules but are not indulged for doing so, that it is his job to set an example and that this means being more rigorius not less ... I also think he's going to have some explaining to do in his constituency, where voters may have been under the imprression that he lived not in London, nor in Herefordshire, but with them in Newark.

But the people I want to question about is your journey really necessary? are not the goverment spokespeople, but the journalists. Even in normal times, I don't understand why Laura Kuenssberg has to stand in the rain and the darkness outside a Palace of Westminster which has closed down for the night, in order to give us her analysis of something that happened there earlier in the day. These are not normal times, and we are all urged not to wander about the streets, but we're still being shown special correspondents speaking from significant locations, as if this added anything to what they are saying.

Worse still are the reporters who have been flocking to the beach or to the Lake District in order to explain to us why we mustn't go there. Some of them fon't seem ever to have been to Cumbria before, and are quite lyrical about how beautiful it is, somewhere they have spent the day, and I'm not allowed to.

Instead, I have been catching up on posting to Flickr pictures from last midsummer in Shetland. This one seemed appropriate:

Call it "Ready and Waiting" (and waiting). Ready to walk out to the beach at Sandwick in Yell:

Comments

[sovay]

Worse still are the reoorters who have been flocking to the beach or to the Lake District in order to explain to us why we mustn't go there.

Ouch.

I like your photographs. I hope it is safe for those boots to see sturdy use soon.

[shewhomust]

I like your photographs.

Thank you.

I hope it is safe for those boots to see sturdy use soon.

I have been wearing them to get in among the brambles in the garden. It's not the same, but they are not neglected.

[cmcmck]

If you're not careful, I'll start posting years of Orkney pics! :op

[shewhomust]

You are much more organised than I am about posting pictures soon after your return - but I wouldn't complain if you wanted to revisit them!