Triplets?

Fully intended to have a short day to keep to my hours but as ever the best laid plans didn't quite work out.  I am the duty officer for Covid outbreaks this week and we had a message early this morning of a positive case associated with a local rugby club.  Before you knew it I was involved in an Incident management team meeting where it seemed that everyone had been invited.  Truth be told it was complicated with the young man involved also boarding at a local school.

I had to quickly get up to date with England Rugby's protocols and their definition of a close contact.  Fascinating how they had defined close contact for someone playing the game; they pretty much had set up a decision matrix where someone could play a whole game without being considered to be a close contact!  By their own admission they couldn't conceive of another team sport which involved more contact, but by removing scrums and mauls from a match, they believed that it could run safely.  I was sceptical, but the protocols had been signed off by Public Health England so who am I to argue with the experts.

After work we took a walk around the local farmer's fields, seeing some deer, a fox and a stoat on our travels.  However it was the lambs, enjoying the late afternoon sunshine that one the day.  I do wonder if these are all from the same sheep, or whether an errant lamb from another mother just happened to be lying down with its friends