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I have been making masks. I have bought some rather nice ones from Sea Salt in bold colours, but you still look like a bandit. https://www.seasaltcornwall.co.uk/accessories I prefer the highwayman look myself. I have a number of snoods also from Sea Salt in pretty materials that you can pull up over your face, but the material isn’t dense enough to be much protection for you or anyone within your sneeze range, so I have been experimenting with various linings. I have made pockets to use with disposable filters (You can get Filter Paper Activated Carbon Filter Pads which are 5 layers thick from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08694ZJ9V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) but the difficulty is keeping them in place. I hadn’t realised how much one’s chin moves around and even a small amount of movement dislodges them. So then I tried making a permanent filter of triple sheets of fine woven linen which works quite well but is an expensive option ...

After a sustained period of dark, rather chilly weather, things are looking up. It is lighter and warmer and the garden is burgeoning. Everything is fresh green and lush. The beans are climbing up their poles letting their bright scarlet flowers swing down through their leaves. The courgettes have huge yellow blooms – I might even have enough to sacrifice the fruit and to experiment with stuffing the flowers. I’ve never done that before. The only problem is that all this gorgeous greenness is enticing the baby bunnies into the range of my predatory cats. Score so far: 2 rescued, 2 rabbit pie (cat version, not mine). Last night’s bunny tried to burrow through the mortar in the stone wall in the sitting room, literally making some headway as there is a sizable dent. I hope it didn’t return to become the mangled corpse on the bathroom floor. Anyway, I have two fat cats fast asleep in the sitting room. Beautiful svelte Izzy seems not to have taken part in this orgy as she is stak...