Series 1, Episode XI

Pedro was feeling very grown up today, so he wanted to play social distancing - and he managed to persuade the rest of the gang to join in.

Baby Bear drew the short straw and he had to pretend to cough while shut up in the isolation ward - where he can be glimpsed trying to join in - not really allowed - through the window.

While Yuri, who was not too keen, was bribed by being allocated the tallest distancing tower to stand on. Third from the right. No-one knew at that point that Polly would be a lot nearer the camera and so appears both to be on the tallest tower and much bigger than either of the other two. If a touch out of focus.

Red OED, probably bound for the library at the Royal Grammar School at Guildford, once King Edward VI's Grammar School at Guildford. A school which, despite the 'grammar' in its name, had deemed the OED surplus to requirements more than twenty years ago. Maybe they sold most of their library off a decade before the once proud libraries of government departments got around to it. In any event, there was not much left of the Home Office library by the time I was able to use it, early in the new millennium - a library which had probably been a very good one in its day, given the range of Home Office interests.

Later in the afternoon it was raining and Grandpa had to abandon bricks in favour of blocks, for which raincoat and umbrella were practical. So three blocks at around 1km each.

Rewarded by tweeting a Baufritz van, in English livery but with German plates, which seemed a little odd. But no visible action at the pre-fab. The hole noticed at reference 2 was now a virtual hole, virtual in the sense that the hole had been made good, but the fencing around it, blocking half the road, was still in place. I also noticed that a small section of the roof was a slightly different colour from the rest of it: German efficiency had not run to getting all the rather large and brightly coloured roof tiles from the same batch.

The other item of note was passing a white van man about five times in the course of the three circuits. Clearly only recently hired by Amazon, and not yet got the hang of packing his van in walk order, in the way of the normal postman - or, indeed, in the way of the supply ship of reference 1. But he was wearing a bulky face mask, more like a military gas mask than the flimsy things that health workers seem to wear.

PS: on a different topic, Grandma is able to report that Peppa Pig is very on-message as regards compost heaps, with today's episode having a lot of tips and info. about same. As is proper, very much Grandpa Pig's part of the garden.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/nautical-affairs.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/series-1-episode-x.html.

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