So, Haircut Day, the day when non-essential shops re-open, including nail-bars, beauty salons, garden centres, and yes of course, hairdressers.
You can tell too. I drove past the Turkish Barbers this morning and saw the queue stretching down the street. I'm not kidding - there were about fifty men, shivering, with their hands thrust into denim pockets.
Beer gardens are open. You can go to the pub today, sit outside with a nice cool pint brought to your table, chat nonsense with your socially distanced pals. I imagine that might also be popular (if freezing) later.
Of course, just to help us along, the good old British Weather Service sent us a covering of snow - hence the chilly men in the queue for the Turkish Barbers. It fell overnight, leaving a patchy coat of icing for the green grass to poke through. It'll soon be gone, I'd wager.
I won't be queuing up to get my hair cut - at least not today. For the same reason, I didn't rush back to the gym this morning either - I had a feeling it might be similarly busy, and that is an environment where people are touching machines, breathing heavily and flinging sweat about. I want to go back with minimal risk and a pack of anti-bac wipes. Maybe later in the week.
And that's a good point - just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Somehow it's in human nature to push freedoms to the very limit, to surf along the boundary lines of the acceptable, and to grab everything permitted before everyone else does, just because it's there, whether it's toilet rolls and pasta (last year) or shivering queues for the Turkish Barber (this).
I like to think that the government and scientists take the 'vomitorium' into consideration, and plan a contingency in their dates and numbers, just to account for everyone spewing out to the shops and the pub gardens.
Still, the Prime Minister would probably have mixed feelings I'd wager, if he saw the non-socially distanced queue for the Turkish Barbers.
The Five Dates
Back to School Day: 0 days
Back to Sixes Day: 0 days
Haircut Day: 0 days
Big Travel Day: 35 days
Liberation Day: 70 days
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