Getting recreation and leisure up and running again.

Fans are in situ at Crucible as we speak. I'll check ITV racing at 1:30pm for Goodwood update.

One huge question looming over cinemas is the fact that the only money they make is from sales of food and drink, which obviously is not conducive to wearing a mask.

I'm glad it's being enforced but cinemas more than anywhere will be the hardest hit.

But that goes against the advice of not touching your mask. I'd have thought doing that you may as well not wear the mask at all.

Sure, but what people do and what people are supposed to do aren't always the same thing. I'd have thought the number of people not touching their masks is vanishingly low - I've got mine stuffed into the bottom of bags and pockets all over the place, and I fish them out as I need them for shops, tube, etc, then stuff them back in. They're probably filthy. 

This is my absolute pet peeve! If you accept that you are wearing a mask to stop your spray going on other people's faces, other people's spray is going on yours too. It will not just be localised to where you are wearing the mask, it will be over your forehead and neck. When you wear your mask around your neck and chin you are rubbing the inside of the mask, that will then be touching your mouth, on a potentially infected area.



I work in a hospital and we had specific training on donning, wearing and doffing masks given by our director of infection control who is a professor of microbiology. He said that there are *loads* of ways to make wearing a mask less safe than not wearing anything at all and this is one of them!



I think masks are very important but along with the 'cover your face' message information should be given on doing this properly. You can eat and drink but should unhook the mask from one ear, hold onto it without touching the outside, eat/drink and then replace and sanitise your hands. Easily done if you do it properly.



Anywayyy, now I've made myself seem crazy, I'll be off!

Sorry vickyg I didn't mean to push up your blood pressure - I'm describing not prescribing...!

I do think that the problem with mask wearing is that the longer you're required to wear it, the less hygienic you're going to be. A 2 min walk through a pub to go to the loo? No prob. A two hour train journey - no chance I'm not fiddling with it, pulling it down to slurp some water, etc. Maybe there's a point where the balance of risk means it's better not to wear one than to wear it, but I guess it's hard to say where that is and even harder to communicate it.

Statement from QDOS. It doesn't explicitly say 'all pantos are cancelled', but that's certainly the subtext:

Beginning to think it'd extremely unlikely we're going to see theatres opening back up soon. If the talk is of the pubs closing again to compensate for schools going back then it's not going to be possible for theatres to open.

Well boris does like copying nicola

Except English theatres will, fingers crossed, be allowed to reopen from 15 August. It was going to be the 1st until it was 'paused' at the last minute.

Tonight was the first night of The New Normal Festival in Wandsworth, with Edinburgh Fringe regulars Crime Scene Improvisation getting the ball rolling.

I would have loved to have been there tonight (and next week for Notflix) but alas, just saw the pic from following Crime Scene Impro on social media and thought it was interesting to see the set-up. Looks very civilised!

Enjoy tomorrow, hope you'll share with us how you find it!