Coronavirus/Covid-19 - general outlook in England nowadays?

Masks in shops, and mostly people keeping a distant from you (no hand shakes, hugs etc) seems to cover it.

We've travelled on trains and buses, and apart from the masks, the most striking feature is how empty they are. No one asked why we were travelling or to justify our journey.

Cafe's and eateries now take a name and contact number pretty much routinely (track & trace).

I would have thought the river levels in October may be your main obstacle ... but in fairness I would never have guessed how the Covid 19 reaction would have escalated if you'd asked me in February, so what do I know.

Rog

Canals that I have cruises are very busy, otherwise not much to remind you of the ongoing panic, that seems to have taken over in many parts of the country. Hand shaking for me has gone, however the elbow bump is quite cool. Been in lots of pubs, nearly all seem fine. Older people often ignore distancing, probably just forget. After 5 weeks or so cruising we have found being at home for a few days very odd. Boating is a different world.

 Eh?  I'm British.  The UK is just as much 'my country' as yours.  Perhaps more so, as my genes go back hundreds of years, first recorded ancestors in Scotland & from (it would seem) the Deightons of Yorkshire  -  horse traders who moved to Scotland.


"DEIGHTON

There’s nothing gives away your Yorkshire roots more than having a surname which derives from a placename within the county.  There are at least three places called Deighton in Yorkshire… near Huddersfield, Northallerton and York. They all got their names from old words ‘dic’ and ‘tun’ which basically means a settlement near, or surrounded by, a ditch or dyke. Nowadays the surname is most popular around the Harrogate to York region."

Perhaps related to this chap:


Robert de Deighton
Born about 1275 - Deighton, Yorkshire, England

It is recorded that a family called Deighton, as early as the 13th century, resided in the vicinity of the hamlet of Deighton, in the parish of Deighton, in the east riding of Yorkshire. This hamlet is about four and a half miles south south east from the present city of York.

The early DEIGHTON's appear to have been for generations tenants of a farm on the Manor of Deighton. The Abbott of St. Mary's of York is named as the lord of the manor. The family at that time was of the yeomanry, but the family annals reveal a steady rise in both social and economic position.

The first individual recorded in the family history is Robert de Deighton. Robert was a Yeoman. A Yeoman implied a gentleman of small estate who besides being a freeholder, was an officer in the Militia of his section of the country, hence the expression "an officer of the guard".