Friday: Back to Work Plans

A very routine couple of days, with work, exercise, walks and not much else to write about. Now people are allowed in each other's houses H and her BF have gone to his home for the weekend. From now on they will drift between the two houses according to who is working, where and when. He will be starting back in the office next week, working one week in, one week at home, and she is doing Sunday shifts at the cafe. 

M has had a return to work pack for his job at 111, with various things to work through, including risk assessments. We think occupational health will want to check his, but that it is very likely he will be going back at the beginning of August. Everything seems very well organised, with catch up training and supervision to ease returners back in after their four months away. Meanwhile I have no idea when I will be going back into the archives, as most of the staff are still redeployed with the community hub. That may be winding up at the end of the month, but nobody seems very sure, so until then, who knows! A couple of people are now going in for one day a week to catch up on the backlog of enquiries, but quite what happens after that seems to be an open question and I doubt I will be going in for a while yet. We also had a letter from TG's school today to confirm that she will be going back full time in September, although a few days later than the original return date as they want to stagger the start of term by year groups.

Our brass band had just started organising small group rehearsals on Sunday afternoons, in the garden space outside our normal rehearsal venue. I didn't go last Sunday, but was down to play in one of this weekend's sextets. However, the government has announced new guidance for wind and brass groups and choirs, which is that NO amateur groups of any size should play together for the time being while further research is carried out (previously the advice was that a group of six could pay outdoors with 3 metre distancing). So this weekend is off, and so are any other small group rehearsals. By the time they are allowed again, I suspect it will be autumn and the weather will not be good enough for outdoor playing. A shame, and to be honest it seems over cautious - indoors I can understand, but banning any outdoors and distanced playing seems excessive. If the government was more competent I would assume they know something we don't, but as it is I have very little confidence in their decisions.