Nile Wilson signing off

If you've read earlier posts you will be aware of Nile Wilson, one of the Olympic Team that won bronze at the London Olympics.

He has released endless Vlogs charting his gymnastics journey and various challenges to promote gymnastics and fitness.

At the beginning of the Pandemic he made his new fitness programme free.

Sadly now as you will see in the below video he is quitting competing.

In such a difficult time for the country this just adds further sadness.

Nile Wilson isn't a nurse or doctor, he can't cure Coronavirus.

However, he has provided a role model for facing challenges and has shown that you can come through things.

Hopefully he can find a role in his future that uses his talents to help others, as he already has.

Tough new restrictions to hit London

London is entering “a short” tier two lockdown.

This means bars and restaurants for larger groups will be severely restricted, as households can’t mix in them.

Journeys should be reduced and indoor exercising is only allowed if household mixing can be avoided.

Single person households can bubble.

Schools, universities and places of worship can stay open.

So we can learn and we can pray, but we can’t socialise.

This really should be short, we don’t all pray.

However, Liverpool and Scotland have been enduring restrictions worse than this for longer.

Restrictions come into place tonight at midnight.

Sombre Times

The Guardian has reported that one-third of British professional musicians are considering giving up their careers because of the pandemic.

This information was based on a survey of 2,000 members of the Musicians Union.

The pandemic has been a crippling time for the arts, with many musicians forced to work for free to sustain a profile online as live venues are still closed.

This is not the most tragic news from a pandemic that has caused misery and economic fears for many.

However, it is still deeply saddening.

Surviving in the arts has always been tough, many musicians struggle in good times despite their talent.

Music lightens the load in many people's lives, so losing musicians to supermarket work - as the Guardian reports - is bad for a cross section of society in the end.

We are lucky in Britain to have such a diversity of music on offer, but with the pandemic we can no longer even support venues.

Businessman spit

Keep your spit to yourself people, there's a virus going round.

This lunch time while walking down the high road I saw a man spit on the pavement.

The man was dressed in a business suit and jeans with, get this, a surgical mask round his chin.

He was with two other men with no mask, but as he effectively wasn't wearing his I see them as silly as each other.

There is a virus going round, you have a mask and you spit...

I've seen spitting before in pandemic times, but this has got to be the silliest.

Be careful, there are some silly people out there. 

Vaccines should be global

Russian hackers are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the American, British and Canadian governments said on Thursday, full article here.

Is it just me that thinks a race for a vaccine should be a global effort?

I am surprised that all nations aren’t working together on this.

After all, it doesn’t really matter who discovers the vaccine so long as it is discovered.

Is scientific pride really this National in the face of a pandemic?

Stop the raving

Raves are the epitomy of opposition to authority, they are the wild undercurrent to the club scene and closely linked with right to roam.

However, we are in Covid-19 times now and it’s time to stop.

If you want to show that ravers really wish the best for their fellow man, then calling off the raves is the way forward.

Show ravers can be responsible and be responsive to a global pandemic.

A free party is a great thing, but not if it overloads the NHS and endangers loads of lives.

Go with the cops for once, call off the raves.