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This is the longest I’ve gone without a Solero for months. I am worried the Solero factory might have to close. Especially as we approach the winter months where most people stop eating Soleros. Sorry Ian Solero. My September resolutions are holding strong.
The other day Katy Brand gave me some amazing Solero info - "I met the man who designed the swirl in a Solero. He was a chemical engineer. It is, he told me, a feat of chemical engineering to make the juice swirl hold its shape within the ice cream. Also, the ice beads on the outside are designed to be there.â€
I pretended to be unimpressed, but it was just the lack of Soleros talking.
We had a family day out at the park, Wagamamas and then the cinema. I had worried about the Covid implications of going to the flicks on a Sunday afternoon, but I needn’t have worried. There were maybe 8 other people in the large screen to see Onward. And I don’t think that was a diss on the film, which was pretty good, but people, it seems, are not flocking back to the cinemas.
The saddest thing for me was that the pick n mix counter was closed and all the tubs empty of sweets. This is terrible news for the pick n mix thieves of this world. How am I meant to feed my family now?
Most of my cinema experience involved chasing my son round the huge auditorium. He has a rubbish attention span and the film was a little too grown up for him. Luckily we could go all along our row and up and down the stairs without really disturbing anyone, but I had been looking forward to a sit down and maybe a sneaky snooze in the dark. This used to be possible when we were at the flicks with Phoebe at this age (and younger), but my boy just wants to explore and fidget whatever cinematic marvels you put in front of him.
Still it was nice to attempt some kind of normality and unusually I felt that the precautions in place at the restaurant and cinema were good enough to prevent things spreading (but come on, how is pick n mix going to spread any germs? That’s insanity). The number of infections is bumping up again though this is mainly hitting the young and thus not resulting in huge numbers of deaths at the moment, it does feel that people are becoming more blasé and believing the crisis is over. And I am rather doubtful about that.
It feels certain to be a very bumpy few months coming up and it’s probably time to start gradually storing food and toilet paper now ahead of a Covidy hard Brexit. And I’d also recommend getting out and doing some stuff now, just in case, even though that will add to the problems. Things continue to look desperate for live comedy (and the entertainment industry in general). I would really like to have seen things start to return to normal on October. But without a vaccine I am not confident that we’ll be anywhere near normal by October 2021.
Lots of people seem determined to believe that everything will be OK (in spite of mounting evidence) and I get that. Because most of us think that we can affect stuff by just believing in something strongly. Someone tweeted me a graph showing Covid 19 deaths and asked me if it was reasonable to be worried about the second wave (with a strong hint that someone somewhere was lying to us in order to control us somehow- conspiracy theories are light on the logic of this). Whilst infection rates are merely concerning now, rather than showing a definitive trend, it’s weird to ignore them entirely or not try to understand why death rates are down or notice that the increase in deaths came a little way behind the infection rates last time.
The best thing I saw today though was someone claiming that people wearing masks are just virtue signalling. Like doing anything that might be construed as for the greater good is only done to make yourself appear to be good. I mean, fuck, yeah, when you do any kind of human kindness, like letting someone into traffic or holding a door or not mowing everyone down with a machine gun, then I guess you’re just virtue signalling.
Whereas the people who call everything virtue signalling at every fucking turn are certainly not in anyway doing that to draw attention to themselves. Good to know that we’re giving those who can’t conceive of any human goodness that doesn’t have selfish ends a good shot at running the world right now. Can’t see that having any negative consequences for us all.
Still fun day at the cinema. Still annoyed I couldn’t steal any sweets, even though I wouldn’t have been able to eat them.
