Covid cases are soaring in Cambridge. We’ve been very cautious as a city and numbers stayed low but it seems that the new strain got into schools before Christmas. The city council has responded by closing the open air market - hot food outlets got very popular during lockdown 2 and the crowds were causing concern. Unfortunately they have also locked out the greengrocers, bread, cheese and fish stalls that have kept people (especially those who don’t want to go in shops) supplied since March. Needless to say it hasn’t gone down well. On the positive side, tourism had become rather out of hand in the city (one of the reasons I stopped posting here because I couldn’t bring Monty into town for 6 months of the year because he would get trampled), and there was a permanent crowd at the entrance to King’s College. It’s been nice this year to get the town back even if everybody this morning was masked up even outdoors.
Bicycles & beautiful buildings Judith....now I know you’re back! I read about your market, it’s a great shame for all the regular stall holders & their safe food supplies...there is always someone who is gathered into these closures where it’s completely unnecessary & others that get away with opening just because they have a food department.
@happypat I’m gutted for the normal food stalls and actually the cooked food people are all very nice - the useless marshalls just did nothing to organise things. I get the feeling they have had no training and are all terrified.
Welcome back, nice one. All very odd at the moment, especially where you're used to seeing hordes of people. We managed to squeeze a trip to the Tower of London between November lockdown and Tier 4 lockdown and it was downright spooky. The ravens were desperate for company....
@judithg Help is on the way...eventually. Distribution and inoculation is going slower over here than most had hoped. But just the fact there is a vaccine on the scene is rather miraculous.
