Selborne...

According to Jay Rayner, writing in the Guardian, "The national steakhouse group Hawksmoor has just launched the Hawksmoor at Home box. It serves two people and costs £120, including delivery to anywhere in the UK. Inside you’ll find a hulking 35-day-aged Porterhouse steak, the makings of a bone marrow and madeira jus, alongside a bottle of Malbec and a bottle of pre-mixed Hawksmoor Martini based on Hepple Gin, plus a few other things besides: 500 boxes are available each week". They won't need to reserve a Hawksmoor at Home box for me. £120 and it still needs to be cooked! I don't think so.

Licensed this morning: one of the ponds near the village of Selborne which the Rev Gilbert White knew so well...

Easingwold...

A 30-year-old Texan deserves a Darwin award (which recognises those individuals who have contributed to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool) for attending a ‘covid party’. According to Dr Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, the patient looked at his nurse, just before he died, and said “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not”.

A quiet corner of Easingwold...

Pocklington Canal...

Angler, today, on the Pocklington Canal...

Hull...

Street scene in Hull...

Haircut...

By the time she arrived at her barber shop, at 9am, the hairdresser found half a dozen guys waiting for what looked to be their first - and much-needed - post-lockdown trim. When it was my turn, I put on my mask, sanitised my hands and waited while she decontaminated the chair, scissors, comb and clippers, changed her disposable plastic apron and adjusted her clear plastic face shield. I wrote my name and telephone number on a clipboard, along with my inside-leg measurement and latest audited sperm count. It was good to resume the traditional barber shop badinage: “Going anywhere this year?” A number 2 buzz cut transformed the wild-haired ‘mad professor’ look into something tidier. I spurned the opportunity to look at the back of my own head, and, stuffing the mask back into my pocket, walked back into the cobbled alleyways of Howden.

Holy Trinity Church in Hull, now open for 'personal prayer': the perfect opportunity to thank the creator of the universe for gifting us a global pandemic, while neglecting to provide the cure...

Schadenfreude...

Ah, shadenfreude! He trivialised the pandemic by downplaying the risks, resisted any attempt at social distancing and refused to wear a mask (only "fairies" wore masks, he said), even as Brazil became the second-worst-hit country after the United States, with more than 65,000 deaths and 1.6m confirmed cases. And now the far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus. Praise be... perhaps there is a God after all!

The estate village of South Dalton...

Vaccine...

According to a new poll, 16% of of British adults would “probably” or “definitely” refuse to take a Covid-19 vaccine, if or when a vaccine becomes available. “Our hope for a return to normal life rests with scientists developing a successful vaccine for coronavirus,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit organisation that commissioned the research. “But social media companies’ irresponsible decision to continue to publish anti-vaccine propaganda means a vaccine may not be effective in containing the virus. The price for their greed is a cost paid in lives".

Licensed today: a new housing development on the outskirts of Kendal, with every house having solar panels on the roof...