tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24746593.post740192219196085596..comments2024-01-06T08:38:28.019+00:00Comments on Blaugustine's Other Blog: NOT SO SELF-ISOLATEDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24746593.post-90833458366424725152020-03-22T12:20:55.774+00:002020-03-22T12:20:55.774+00:00True, I don't have a car and don't drive a...True, I don't have a car and don't drive anyway so I'm free from many tortuous car-related machinations. However this corona crisis makes us aware of so many surfaces we normally come in contact with, suddenly becoming potentially lethal. A newspaper: how many hands will have touched it before your hands take hold of it? Do you sometimes lick a finger to turn pages which cling together? Loose apples, bananas, oranges at the greengrocers: how many times will they have been handled by the time you pick one up? It's amine field.Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24746593.post-76222984793580272642020-03-21T12:19:16.456+00:002020-03-21T12:19:16.456+00:00I'd say "regularly" should be "...I'd say "regularly" should be "continuously" but who am I to preach? I sneak out and acquire The Guardian from the nearby filling station and have managed to justify this by recommending a novel use for one of the filling station's lesser-known features. Since you do not drive I may have to elaborate.<br /><br />Filling stations that stay open round-the-clock are vulnerable to men with GBH tendencies. Thus the doors are locked at night and payment for fuel is made via a sort of sliding drawer system similiar in principle though not in detail to those operating at some post offices.<br /><br />The staff agreed this was a good idea but it was never employed. Instead black tape on the floor marks out the acceptable anti-infection frontier. To show I'm a good guy I stretch out exaggeratedly when handing over the payment voucher (It helps the publisher's cash flow) and The Guardian itself (which needs its bar-code scanned). So important to be seen doing the right thing. Enough. I'm becoming a bore.<br /><br />Reading The Guardian online is just not the same.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com