lockdown day 48

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I got my first mask the other day when I took out the rubbish and made a quick trip to the supermarket. I had tried buying some online but there were so many kinds to choose from that I just got confused and gave up. I thought it would be easier at the pharmacy but it wasn’t really. Sure there were fewer choices but I still had no idea what I was looking for. So I bought five of these cheap one-use paper ones and was a bit surprised when the woman just took them out of a large box of masks and put them in a bag. I mean, they weren’t wrapped in plastic or anything, and although I had seen her disinfecting her gloved hands when I walked in, I did think about the irony of catching the virus from my mask.

Anyhow, they’re not very nice to wear, are they? I can’t imagine having one on all day, especially in summer, as it gets quite hot under there. But since it looks like it may become mandatory for us to start wearing masks outside, any advice on what kind I should buy? I still have four, so that should keep me going for the next forty days (más o menos), but deliveries have been taking longer lately. If you have a link to some that you have purchased and would recommend that would be even better. Thanks!

nico

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I wrote about Nico shortly after lockdown, because he had disappeared for a few days and I was worried about how he was going to get on with fewer people in the streets to give him money. He’s my “designated street guy”. I mean, I can’t afford to be giving money to all the street people, so it’s been my thing that wherever I’ve lived here I get to know one of them a bit and do my best to help them out. Not just with money but also stopping and chatting a bit. I was used to seeing Nico every day.

Anyhow, now that I am only going out about once every ten days or so I haven’t been able to give Nico much help but then I saw him walking past my house and called out for him to stop while I looked around for a fiver. I had visions of it fluttering down onto my neighbour’s balcony so I made it into a tight square and tossed it down to him – and that worked fine! So now I have a new method of getting some cash to him a bit more often, even if it means throwing my money around.  🙂