Weird I have just looked and thought it's ages since anybody posted.
Sorry about your freezer RS, I know the UK shops seem to be making a massive killing on them. Not sure whether I said before but my son's had broken down late last year & not been replaced & at the beginning of the lockdown he really needed one. None to be had, he used his contacts from the restaurant and eventually we managed to find one but it was about £600!
Pleased to say that we haven't had a second Covid wave here. I think everybody was expecting it when the lockdown ended at the beginning of the month but the numbers are still going down despite the large number of tests. In the Paris region alone (where most cases are still occurring) they are doing 1.3M tests!
Most time is still spent in the garden and today we have just picked 1.4kg of our own thornless blackberries! We netted them a few days ago as they were nearly ripe and I wasn’t losing any more fruit to the blackbirds! Last week we picked a load of tayberries and raspberries (which we had netted) and Barry said "Do you want the blueberries, there are a lot there" but I stupidly said “No we’ve got more than enough I’ll have them fresh tomorrow with the redcurrants” Next morning not a blueberry & redcurrant to be seen and Mr Blackbird looked at me with a blackcurrant in his beak! Grr I wouldn’t mind but he is fed every day and I have even been known to buy extra grapes just for him!
We have been out a few times this last week which has been lovely to feel normal again. Barry flew his radio control plane one day, only 1 other person there who was leaving as we arrived so just a quick chat outdoors at 1M distance. Went to a garden centre, also a quiz night and Saturday to a friend for her birthday with 1 other couple but all were socially distanced. It is observed round here, unlike the UK! I was appalled at the scenes in Bournemouth.
Hope you feel better soon RS