The pandemic has not affected my wife's or my income and with the lovely sunny days, I'm crunching for free during daylight hours, wife has made me turn my computer off at night though.

Sometimes there are so many people out and about you would not think there is anything going on. Went to town for some supplies, The chemist, butcher, baker and vege shop were all empty. The Spar on the other hand was grand central station.

We have 2 shops that make/sell candles, very nice they are too, didn't need a candle today though.
We also have an organic food stuffs place but everything is very highly priced.
The only big shop we have is the Spar, and it is usually busy, thankfully all our local shops seem to be doing very well. So well that there will be new shops opening up when some older buildings are finished being renovated. Perhaps the most unusual shop we have is called The Bank House (they may have a website) were local crafters can sell their wares while shoppers can eat the most delicious sandwiches and freshly baked cakes. They sometimes have musicians playing as well.



Well done Gordon.

We've noticed a marked increase in road traffic the past couple of weeks. Goodness knows why, because there is nowhere to go to. Saturday was particularly noticeable, in contrast to previous Saturdays. I think the prospects of relaxed restrictions has weakened people's resolve. However, if you project the current cumulative death toll forwards, at the current rate of reduction we'll end up with forty to fifty thousand deaths assuming there isn't a second wave, which is hardly a result.

Roads are perhaps slightly busier here but still well down on normal levels.

Lot's of ARP's right now but as they require 1GB each they keep chogging up my big PC's memory so it occasionally drops to 30tasks per day. I ordered another 16gb stick yesterday for £29, wow the price has dropped, the last one I ordered was 3x that. Let's see if it works ok though, it's 2933mhz, I've never mized RAM before but I'm hoping it'll throttle itself to 2666 to keep in step with the other sticks.

Good badges . The team has got 8 billion points coming up in 8 weeks or so too.
I'm nearly at 38 years for Mapping Cancer Markers. My first (and probably only) Diamond 50 doesn't seem so impossible any more.