One of Nigel's favourite cartoon strips is Breaking Cat News. It's a cat's eye view of events, and little things become Very, Very Big. (At the moment, we're following the riveting story of the Spider On The Ceiling. It starts here, and you should definitely read it.)

Well, it's a bit like that when you're locked down.

Of course, as of yesterday, the rules in the UK have been eased somewhat. We're now allowed out more than once a day, and we can sit on park benches, and go to garden centres...

But frankly, until there's a clearer picture of where this will all lead, the Terns are not planning to change their habits markedly. Going out early and going out infrequently still seems the way to go.

So, for us too, little things become Very, Very Big. Here are some of this week's headlines:

1. Cheese Rocks!! I don't think I'd ever had Lancashire cheese in my life before, and I find I've REALLY been missing out.

And, in continuation of the Great Cheese Quest, Red Leicester gets my vote for Best Cheese for Baked Cauliflower:


2. The Beaches Are Moving!! We have noticed that a big storm will rearrange Norfolk's sand quite markedly. The pillbox I showed you here was a lot more visible at East Runton the other day:


Likewise, the unidentified fallen masonry on West Runton beach:


3. The Chinese Takeaway Has Reopened!!! Now, this is really big news. Along with our weekly fish-and-chips, here's an opportunity to procure one meal a week that we don't have to a) lug the ingredients home for; and b) chop up and cook. Of course, this is "Chinese" food that has been prepared with the UK palate in mind. So it's massively inauthentic... But it was tasty enough, so long as you don't compare it with home...


Continuing as the backdrop against which our Very, Very Big Things play out is, of course, beautiful Norfolk, with its infinitely varied moods:









A scary little headline has been doing the rounds today, quoting a World Health Organization spokesperson who warns us: "This virus may never go away".

I guess we've all known for a while that our lives are going to be upended for a really long time. But the "never" word chills me to the bone. I find myself incapable of dealing with such news.

So we just carry on. Day by day. Soaking up the beauty. Burrowing into things that interest us. And making small things into Big Things.