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Friday, 13 March 2020

Friday, March 13/2020

Friday the thirteenth. Not superstitious, but....1) Those who have been in the UK in the past 14 days are now supposed to self isolate for 14 days. Which, other than the dentist and buying food, is not hard to do. Will naturally tell Fehmi he needn’t touch us, though dental work not finished. 2) Fair bit of rain in the night, leading to leak in ceiling - not calamitous, and pots deployed. 3) No hot water. Could be worse, but the day is young. 

Ironic that the UK has just been put on Cypriot self-isolation lists when it was conspicuously absent from Trump’s banned European countries. The power of golf courses. Host’s brother takes ladder to roof. Leaking stops, though admittedly at more or less the same time as rain stops. Time will tell. Hot water problem remains, although “special technician” called for, and presumably will eventually appear.