For what now seems like an eternity, we’ve all been doing our bit to keep the dreaded virus away from ourselves, our loved ones and colleagues.

From this week it seems that if we go to the shops, we will all be required to appear like the bad guys in the westerns of old. I’m only too aware that many of my colleagues here at Phoenix would like to see me masked all the time, and better still muzzled and gagged!

Now as you probably know you don’t have to wear a properly designed face covering and you can in fact make your own. Indeed it seems that at least one passenger, on a train in Dublin did just that since he was spotted sporting a pair of knickers round his chops. No doubt his breath was coming in short pants. 

Lets hope he’d washed them first!

Maybe he was off to meet someone and if so perhaps it might have been a brief encounter

Meanwhile a pub in Cornwall has come up with a novel way of keeping punters away from the bar.

Staff at The Star Inn in St Just had had enough of drinkers flouting their rules and so decided on tougher measures. Along with a notice asking customers politely to keep their distance from one another and the staff, they have installed a fully charged electric fence running along the full length of the bar.

Landlord Jimmy McFadden said, “It’s there for social-distancing and for the benefit of everyone.”

Although a couple of punters claimed to have received hefty jolts from the device, Mr McFadden said that in practice, it’s usually switched off but can be turned on without warning.

So this is one pub where if you cause trouble, you could find yourself being overcharged. It’s what you might call a current affair!

I’ll see you again tomorrow,
Scott