Busy weekend with the first pre-season football match so, once again I’m posting for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge on Monday🙄 None of the players came near enough to be considered close-up, so there’s no Football. Having spent most of yesterday processing photos and watching a fascinating stage of Le Tour de France, I needed to do some quick shots around the house today for this week’s post.
Covid introduced a new item into most of our lives, the face mask. I took the decision to wear one in shops and other enclosed environments early on, before they were made compulsory. One of the biggest issues early on was deciding what sort of mask to wear while later on it more about getting one that you’re happy to wear. Most of the more colourful ones were clearly aimed at female wearers with males being offered the Model T Ford colour option🤣 Of course, you could design your own and there were some places offering this option – Fellow Wingate & Finchley fan Tom has a couple of black ones with the Wingate & Finchley badge on them👍 I did look at making a trucking one for myself but couldn’t get it to appear as I wanted. Then, one of the train companies, LNER, began offering some masks featuring symbols of destinations they serve. They were quite expensive but all the profits from each sale were going to go to a charity called CALM – Campaign Against Living Miserably. LNER are supporting this charity in an effort to reduce the number of suicides that occur on the railway every year – it’s become an epidemic. I decided to purchase 2 to begin with. Here is one of those first masks…
This one features Thistles, symbolic of Scotland.
We’ll visit masks again at the end. Here’s my Fitbit…
…and a bit of sunburn from Saturday’s football match – must remember to put on the sunblock🙄 Still, it enhances my Redneck credentials ready for when SCS Software release the Texas DLC for American truck Simulator😂
Bubbles… My Bubbles…
…I was walking past the sink on my way to feed the birds when I realized there might be a photo to be had 😎
Finally, back to my face masks and this one was produced by LNER to celebrate their new Azuma trains…
…I’ve got three of these and I always carry one when I got trainspotting – while they’re no longer compulsory, I’ll put it on if I think it will make my fellow passengers more comfortable. Once again, the profits went to CALM.
Images from Finchley 