イギリスは、今日から外でなら２所帯まで、６人まで集まって良いことになりました。急速に減っていたコロナによる死者や入院患者数はここにきて減っていない、むしろやや増加しているようですが、学校がオープンして３週間くらいになるので予想内の結果。これから少しずつ緩和が進むにつれてやや増加は免れないと思いますが、大きく増えないことを祈ります。

From today, we are allowed to meet outside with families and friends up to  6 people (up to 2 households).  The numbers of death and infected by Corona has been declining quite rapidly but they stopped declining or maybe increasing a little, but this was expected as the schools opened a few weeks ago.  I guess they will increase again as the restrictions are loosened, but hopefully not by a lot… It is still very worrying.

日本はすっかり春のようですが、こちらはまだまだ冬。と思っていたら、今日、突然春らしいお天気になりました。と言ってもまだ最高気温１３度なのですが、明日は１７度まで上がる予報、今年いちばんの暖かさ。最低気温も５度前後とこれまでよりは高めです。

Spring has come to Japan, I see, from many photos, cherry blossoms are in full bloom.  Here, it has still been quite wintery, but it finally felt as if spring has come today.  It’s still just about 13C highest but is expected to go up to 17C romorrow, the warmest this year.  The lowest is also around 5C, which is highest this year, too.

ペットワースまでお肉など買いに出かけたのですが、途中の道ではまだたくさん水仙が咲いていますが、色あせてきています。そして、あちらこちらでピンクや白のお花が木々に咲いています。ペットワースの街中のとても大きなマグノリアの木も満開で、とても綺麗でした。

We went to Petworth to do some food shopping and we saw a lot of daffodils and narcisus but they looked like they were already going.  There were many trees with pink or white blossoms and this large magnoria tree in Petworth looked beautiful.

とは言ってもこのまま暖かくなるわけではなく、お天気予報では「ミニ・ヒートウェーブ」と呼んでいるので１週間ほど暖かいお天気が続いたあと、また気温は下がるようです。

However, this better weather will last about a week then it’ll get colder again, they were calling it a “mini heatwave” on TV.