Today, pubs restaurants, cafes and hair salons are able to re-open after three months of closure. I am wondering how long I should be numbering the days on this blog but I think I will carry on until I go back to work. The easing of the lockdown is a worrying time for all of us and there are fears that there'll be a second spike of infections now we're allowed to go out and mingle more.
We had a slow start to the day with bacon sandwiches for breakfast and lots of coffee. Sophie and I decided to go to Market Harborough in the afternoon and see whether our favourite cafe had re-opened. We also needed to go to Boots as both of us wanted a hair colour. Me, because I'm starting to resemble a badger again and Sophie because the blonde colour she'd applied was now fading away and her roots were showing!
The weather today has been cloudy and cool and very breezy. It's supposed to get windier tomorrow with gales forecast in some parts of the UK. Have we had our summer?
We drove over in Sophie's car and parked for free behind Tesco, noticing that the B&M store was all closed up and empty. There have been so many casualties of this pandemic and a lot of shops are sadly going into administration, including Monsoon/Accessorize where we like to go and browse.
We popped to Boots first but they didn't have the hair colours we wanted so we headed to Savers where we were able to buy the brand we needed at a reduced price. We both bought the same John Frieda colour! From there we had a look around the town and popped into Monsoon where Sophie bought some earrings in the 50% sale.
Although restaurants could re-open today we noticed that Pizza Express and Wildwood were still closed. Our favourite little cafe, within a shop called Polka Dot, was still closed, which was a real disappointment. The shop itself was open but the cafe was in darkness. It was no surprise, I suppose, as the place is tiny with only about six or seven tables. We walked to nearby Aldwinckles but they only had two tables in the tiny courtyard, both of which were occupied so we gave up on that as well.
By now, I was dying for a cup of tea and a slice of cake so we tried Louisa's Place which was open and doing a brisk business. We had to give our names and a contact number and we were shown to a table and given a menu.
We had been here before quite a while ago and I hadn't been impressed then, but today was fine. You can't really go wrong with tea and cake, though, can you?! Across the road Starbucks was open but only doing takeaways and we wondered why? I think there has been a lot of caution in re-opening and maybe some businesses just aren't ready yet.
We enjoyed a big pot of tea and a slice of coffee cake each and it was lovely to finally be able to indulge in one of our favourite pastimes!
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