Two gulls having a chat

I hope they weren't talking about the endless boring football!  I took advantage of it last night though, and went to the beach at 7.30 because I hoped everyone would be glued to their tv.  The roads were really quiet and so was the beach!  

I could moan about the tv being dominated by football but it won't change anything.  All the shots of the people talking afterwards are mainly men (with ridiculous hairstyles!) The BBC in particular seems to be run by men and they like football so it gets imposed on us all.  I wish they would have a BBC dedicated sports channel.  The worst thing is, even when I choose not to watch the televised games, I have to see drunken shouting overweight men on the news shouting rubbish into the camera.  I just don't understand why so many of them travelled from Scotland to London even though they didn't have match tickets.  And I don't understand why, even during lockdown, footballers were shown on screen hugging and  touching hands after every goal.  Were they exempt from everything?  Even though lots of them caught the virus, the football and lots of physical contact carried on!

This photo was taken yesterday when the beach was sunny and peaceful even late into the evening.  Today has been grey, cold and raining.

Cornwall has had a really low infection rate all through the pandemic.  Now it has one of the highest!  St Ives has a rate of 517 per 100K people. The hot spots are St Ives, Newquay and Falmouth.  Those places had a massive input of extra police and security staff for the G7.  Five thousand police were brought in - a thousand billeted on a cruise liner at Falmouth.  Some on that ship were infected.  I think the press have been encouraged to ignore this - they are blaming half term and the influx of tourists.  But other parts of the country had tourists at half term and did not have such a massive rise in infections.