Winter Mozzies

Overheard during a TV programme on Covid:

Hay: "A virus hijacks the DNA of the host it infects to get it to make replicas of itself."

Chairman: "You mean it's a bit like a bloke?"

Hay: "Perfect analogy."

So, we have London stations being reported to look like battlegrounds as people, very possibly infected with the mutated virus, spread along the British rail network in overcrowded trains. Give it a couple of weeks and we'll all be in a full, nationwide lockdown again. Why are people so bloody stupid and self-centred?

If you're facing a mutated virus, which is currently confined to the Southeast, you don't give people a warning a few days before the busiest travel time of the year. The full lockdown on the Southeast should have been with immediate effect as Boris went on-air and all trains out of the Southeast cancelled.

On the plus side, we have a base vaccine to modify and an established distribution network for it - now we can only wait. However, that's not to say that yet another mutation won't occur. 

I've finally hit on the perfect formula for a hand sanitiser that is kind to skin.

I've had a spray bottle of Skin So Soft for ages, having discovered its efficacy in repelling biting insects, which plague me in summer - especially horse flies, which delight in treating me as their lunch.

While looking for a spray bottle for our homemade hand sanitiser - 70% isopropyl alcohol and 30% water - Hay alighted on the Skin So Soft spray bottle. It being mid winter and mozzies not exactly being prevalent, she decanted the Skin So Soft into another container and put the hand sanitiser into the Skin So Soft spray bottle. 

The residue of Skin So Soft on the inside of the bottle was just sufficient to result in a mix that both sanitises the hands and provides a thin, lubricating layer to the skin, preventing chaps and dryness. It also keeps the winter mozzies away from me.