1. Training: Is training a waste of time or a necessary evil? Discuss! Have I just wasted 3 hours of my life walking around Ramsey? (when I could have spent them in front of my computer 😁) Or is it beneficial to accumulate 'miles on the legs'? I suppose I know from experience, from training for marathons in my younger days, that training does help - even though I don't see any immediate benefit.
Our government published a 'road map' on Monday outlining an exit strategy from the latest lockdown. It became clear that my Camino de Santiago de Campostela expedition was not going to be allowed to happen, at least not on my 70th birthday, as I had planned. We citizens of England (Wales, Scotland and NI have their own rules) are embargoed from international leisure travel until 17th May. Plan B then is a Camino de Ramsey. I will get dizzy walking round and round the town during the week 27th March - 2nd April. I can't just abandon it as I have now raised >£700 for my chosen charities. Commitment is everything.
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2. The Law: Tomorrow I have arranged to have a haircut! Rather than wait until 12th April (which is still 45 days away). I'm not telling where I'm going or who is going to commit the heinous crime. (You'd have to waterboard me before I revealed this particular secret.) I have absolutely the greatest respect for the law of the land but I'm going to break it tomorrow. I've had my first vaccination and I think my partner in crime has too, so it's a calculated risk. I shall come out of quarantine, do the dastardly deed, and then hide away again. Is that really so wrong? One law for me and another one for everybody else? Is the law ever there just for guidance or is it always to be set in tablets of stone? People are so different, one from another, and everybody sets their (moral and ethical) bars at different heights. Have you ever broken the law? Time to put the flak jacket on and wait for incoming barbs. |
