CORONAVIRUS WEEK 32: SECOND WAVE ACKNOWLEDGED

The news is full of statistics and graphs showing how the pandemic is worsening.  Hospital admissions are up and, in England, they are preparing the Nightingale  facilities (temporary hospitals which are empty in readiness for a surge).

Scotland has already closed bars and restaurants for a fortnight.  It is the school holidays just now so this is seen as a 'circuit breaker' attempt to stem to rise in cases (and deaths).  

People whose jobs have been put on hold (musicians, entertainment people, for example) are looking at a continued life of no income. 

On the other hand there are people like us who are not spending money ... at all.  No petrol for a car that is not going anywhere, no new clothes for events that have been cancelled, no special food or drink for visitors who are not allowed to visit. And so it goes.  

We are keeping busy however with house and garden activities.  Here is Iain preparing venison for dinner.  He likes to fry up a steak.

We saw the 2 youngest grandchildren at the weekend.  We comply with socially distancing by sitting in the park behind our house as seen below.

* * * * * * * * * A PUZZLE * * * * * * * * * 

A friend sent me this photo and asked me if I could take a guess at what it was.  

I tried: a rather nice room with military people on the edge of the group.  A  man wearing a fez in the background.  Easter European? I thought. But that's about as far as I could manage.

It is of the trial of Gavrilo Princip [centre front] and his fellow-prisoners on the charge of assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand (and his wife). It is a well-known fact that the assassination was the catalyst that started the First World War.  

When talking about this event with some friends this week it appears that it was a bit of a fluke that it happened the way it did. The car the Archduke was in ... seen here minutes before the assassination...

drove the wrong way (from the rest of the motorcade) and had then stopped to buy a sandwich. [Really?!] The assassins saw them and took their chance;  the rest is history.

Millions of soldiers lost their lives .... all because of a sandwich?