Today week marks a turning point: Iain received his vaccination today. He is part of the Second group targeted to get vaccinated. (Care home residents and workers plus health workers comprised the First group.) The rate of infection appears to have plateaued; hospital admissions also plateaued but the death rate is still going up.
The sun is now higher which means the morning sunshine beams through the outside glass door into the kitchen.
Daffs and the kitchen kettle
* * * * * * * VENDÉE GLOBE RACE * * * * * * *
Ten sailors are now back home from 80 days at sea in the Vendée Globe Round the World Race. Lots of excitement and photos from Les Sables-d'Olonne. These photos show the welcome for each skipper as he/she comes up the channel to the marina. More photos to come.
The coverage of this race started in the first week of November and has been very well done. Reports with interviews and video footage from the yachtsmen/women were hosted daily by Andi Robertson who is a sailing media man from our part of the world... associated with 'Yachting Life' magazine.
It has greatly eased lockdown for me! (I would probably not have watched it in normal circumstances!) Having spent so many years on a boat sailing in Scottish waters I took great pleasure in vicariously watching how the various skippers handled their boats and the various wind, sea and weather conditions, gear failures, stinging jelly fish, Unidentified Floating Objects, night-time sailing, being on their own etc!
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