: Covid-19 weeknotes 15

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Friday 3rd July, 2020
  1. This week: dinosaurs! Which may continue, because as well as slightly too many Jurassic Park films there’s all sorts of other celluloid dino-wonder, including three films with dinosaurs by Ray Harryhausen, one of which has cowboys.

  2. I used my mask! But only because I had to go pick up a bike I won. So now I have a folding bicycle, which will probably be the most practical way to get to work once our offices open again.

  3. Pubs are opening first.

  4. Except pubs were already open as take-aways.

  5. And sometimes social distancing is two metres but sometimes it’s one metre, which maybe has something to do with masks.

  6. Are you confused yet? Because I am.

  7. Wear your mask.

  8. Three weeks ago I noted that I could have grown a leopard since the start of lockdown. Now it’s been sixteen weeks, I could have grown a pig.

  9. A sixteen week old human fetus is about 11.6cm long, or “the size of an avocado” according to the NHS. Lighter than an avocado, though. And it’ll be pulling faces, apparently.

  10. I’m not sure when “lockdown” will officially be over, given we’re relaxing different bits at different times.

  11. I’m going to count when I first go back into the office. I don’t think that’ll be for at least another month.

  12. By then I could almost have grown a goat.

  13. Or a human fetus to the size of a banana.

Stay safe. Wear your mask. Unless you’re still inside the womb.