Barely a week after my covid jab, and I’ve been notified by the NHS Covid app that I need to self-isolate due to coming in proximity to someone confirmed to have the virus.
My main suspicion is that this was during the one day I was in the office and went to the nearby train station to get lunch.
So now I’m pretty much homebound for 10 days.
I’ve now had my second Covid jab and got poked at my local pharmacy. They didn’t offer me a plaster so I was bleeding out on my tshirt on my walk home.
Will keep updating this post with any symptoms. So far:
Missed logging from yesterday. I did my walk later than normal, as I had to pick up my dad from hospital after an operation.
England were playing in Wembley against Germany last night, though I am not much of a football fan and don’t really follow matches.
I didn’t even think England would beat Germany, based on their history.
On my way back from my walk, I came across a group of teenagers with England shirts on. They saw me and started singing “It’s coming home” to me. I just looked blank and confused (being a chinese person, I guess they thought I couldn’t understand them). One of them put their fist out for a fist bump. Now *that* I knew and met the bump before heading off.
England won 2-0 against Germany but you never would have guessed. Normally, when England score a goal or win a match, you hear massive cheering from the neighbours and then celebrations in the streets — people driving their cars with the windows down screaming “En-ger-land!”
None of that this time.
I’ve been slacking a bit with logging my walks because it’s been a bit monotonous — not much happening during those runs, so I need to fix that.
Lots of rain today and heavy rain too. Eased up a bit so I got my walk done. Had to go in jeans and coat with a cap on as the temperature had dropped enough that t-shirt and shorts were not a recommended choice.
Cooler today, cloudy and a spattering of rain, but at 20degC still humid
I didn’t do my walk yesterday since I was in the office again this week. I took the Victoria Line back from the office and two people seemingly had passed out — one at Victoria, one at Oxford Circus. The heat was almost unbearable.
Oxford Circus is an oven even on normal days. At near 30degC heat it is more like a furnace.
There was immense relief in the evening when it started to rain, but that relief was soon turned in comfortable, sticky, sweaty feelings as the water then evaporated and made the air really humid, making it almost impossible to sleep. I didn’t get any decent sleep till around 2am and FitBit noticed that with my sleep pattern.
Fortunately, it seems like there’s rain forecast for the rest of the week at least.
Have been slacking off logging my exercise again, but there’s a reason.
It’s TOO. DAMN. HOT.
Like, crazy hot. And when the sun shines into your bedroom where you’re trying to work so you have to have the curtains closed while you work, and the fan only provides some minor relief, it doesn’t help
Meanwhile, today, my walk was comfortable — even though it was hot, the breeze helped matters a bit and made it not feel too bad.
No walk today as I was back in the office for one day this week. With the 25degC heat, it was not a pleasant journey. I tried to offset it by using only the airconditioned trains route (Thameslink, Great Northern, District/Circle) but that didn’t make it much more comfortable.
Still topped my step count for the day, as I normally do for the commute.
And we’re back to hot weather again. No rain at all today and a nice day to walk
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