Change of a day

The sun is trying to shine again, though it is later on the scene today. Yesterday, the temperature had gone down again to more normal March temperatures. In the pub garden, smokers & dog-owners once more huddled into their jackets. Today even looks colder.

While we were out yesterday, we noticed the sign for the Famers' Market has been put out. So today we are once more thinking of venturing that way & then maybe have lunch at the Pub, as we had intended to do last week. PD, too, has seen the sign & hastily rang this morning to let us know. He knows how disappointed we were last week & didn't want us to miss it because we hadn't seen the boards - a kind thought.

Meanwhile we seem to be having a bit of a plague of new invaders into our home - ants. We keep trying to work out where they come from but it is not obvious. We would put something down to deter them if we knew how they came in. We suspect there just must be so many around, they are coming in on the soles of our shoes. However, they're doing it, there's just too many for our liking.

The other notable thing yesterday was the queues at the petrol stations around. On Tuesday, when we we'd done our supermarket shop, we stopped & filled up with petrol. The tank was a fair way down, & we were aware we would need plenty for our trip down to Liverpool airport & back next month. It seemed busier than usual but not too bad. We did notice one person filling a hand-held container. Even then we suspected panic buying was beginning to set in. After the government's announcements about filling "jerrycans" yesterday, panic buying is now in full swing. At this rate the garages will be running out of petrol just because people will be stockpiling so much, despite the potential fire risks & illegality involved in so doing. At this rate there will be no need for a strike to grind the country to a full stop!