433:Lockdown Week 5

Greetings fellow hermits! How are you coping with the monotony? It seems that every time you fix your mind on an end date they move the goal-posts and you find yourself 'banged up' for another two weeks.

I can see the sense of quarantine, and self-isolation, and social-distancing. But I can't really see the sense of not being allowed out for a (long) walk. I would be on my own, neither passing, nor receiving, the dreaded virus. Perhaps after the next planned lockdown end date... "From that moment on, the relaxation [of the confinement orders] will happen progressively so that citizens can begin, in an orderly fashion, to return to normal life, to the streets, to the public squares.” Spanish Government spokesman on 8th April.

Happy Easter.

It's Easter Sunday today, at least in the Christian calendar. In the Russian Orthodox church, which has Easter on a different date because they still use the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian one that 'we' use, today is вербное воскресенье or pussy-willow Sunday, the first day of their Holy Week.

The message is the same: Jesus Christ has risen from the grave.

More pictures than words this time, 1) because I have so many of them and they just keep on coming, 2) because it's getting harder and harder to find themes to write about when I'm stuck indoors all day and every day and 3) because it's time to cook dinner!