nowty wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:50 am
Well I've had a bit of a nightmare day.
Friday I drove to London to pick up Daughter + her fiancé + 5 month old grandson and bring them to Nowty Towers. Long drive but was worth it, Zen totally impressed the daughter and fiancé, the comfort, the quietness, the performance, the autosteering, etc. We had a nice take away meal when we arrived back, and then a drive and a walk on Saturday though the New Forest were we had close up encounters with donkeys, horses and a wild pig. Followed by a nice outdoor beer garden sample of the local apple juice and a home made root vegetable soup.
Returned to Nowty Towers and I looked forward to cooking a nice family meal of,
Salad of Watercress, Cherry Tomatoes, Feta cheese and red pepper.
Followed by Salmon and Scallops which I had bought from a high quality fishman with basmati and wild rice.
Followed by a desert of mixed fruit tart and vanilla ice cream.
All washed down with lashings of prosecco.
What could possibly go wrong ?
About an hour after we arrived back from the New Forest my daughter's fiancé feels a bit tired and goes for a lie down. Now they are totally paranoid about Covid. They work from home, all their food groceries are delivered and they don't socialise and they are both triple jabbed. However the fiancé has had to return occasionally to the office where there is social distancing, regular testing and he wears an FPP2 mask, he walks to work and even wears the FPP2 mask when groceries or take away food is delivered. They both also take additional Covid tests almost every day.
My daughter comes to see me and shows me two tests, her test which is definitely negative but her fiancés test looks negative but there is the faintest of lines almost imperceptible. He does 3 more tests, each one completely negative and he does not feel too bad. But he quarantines himself in one room and my daughter with baby decides to also quarantine in another room and they both put on their FPP2 masks. So the meal went ahead but in 3 separate rooms. We tried to persuade daughter to eat with us but she refused.
The next day on Sunday SWMBO was supposed to drive them back to London and stay overnight as she has taken Monday off. Sunday morning the fiancé tests 100% positive, no doubt about it. Also daughter's test has a very faint line and she has a runny nose. What do we now do ?, do they isolate with us but SWMBO is in the extremely vulnerable category. They cannot travel by public transport and we dare not be in the same car as them.
So the fiancé who does not feel too bad, drives SWMBO's car with daughter and baby to London followed by myself and SWMBO in the TM3. Then SWMBO sanitises her car and drives back home following me in then TM3. My TM3 can make the return journey no problem, but the BMW i3 cannot so we agree to stop somewhere at a fast charger. Zen decides to make a very obscure return journey south of the the river and down the A3 instead of the M4 and M3. I decide to go with it cos Zen usually knows best but it was a nightmare and SWMBO nearly lost sight of me several times. I found a shell garage with about 8 x 150kW chargers but they were not the Shell ones, might have been Gridserve. Absolute nightmare 2 were broken, all were in use and when each one became free they all failed on the i3. We gave up and SWMBO had to use the range extender but that limits the speed to about 50mph. We stopped at a BP service station, no charger, eventually found another Shell service station which did have a single working one. Then the App which is supposed to give me a discount did not work, but at least it took a contactless card.
So eventually got home, and started deep clean sanitisation of just about everything. We still feel fine and have tested negative but in the next couple of days, who knows.