About a week a go the government cancelled all parades here in Ireland so it's been a fairly quiet day here in Dublin. Additionally the pubs were all closed from Sunday night onward. I was particularly glad about this as I believe it would have had a very negative effect on the spread of Covid19 if the pubs had been left open on St Patricks' day.
We cancelled all planned meetups with friends and have not been going out to any restaurants and pretty much hunkering down except to take the dog for a walk or to quickly go in to the shops for essentials.
We got up today and went for a long walk around Ranelagh. We got to Forest Avenue restaurant which was due to be selling their sour dough bread at 11am to 5pm along with other goods which in effect was turning their restaurant in to a neighbourhood market. However when we got to the restaurant, there was a queue outside the door and someone told us the opening was delayed until 12pm. So we left and continued on walking and went in to the park to enjoy the nature. I got close to the resident heron who is quite friendly and lets you get fairly close to him before he flies away.
This was a world wide online facebook initiative to get Irish people all over the Ireland out in to their garden or on to their balcony and to sing together at 12pm for St Patricks Day while in self isolation. You may have seen some of this on Facebook - let me know if you did.
I'm planning on charging up my electric bike battery and taking the bike whatever the weather in order to avoid having to take public transport. Using a bike rather than getting on the bus or train is a simple thing that most people should consider to try to do and it may curb some of the spread of this virus.
Other than all of the above, we are well stocked up on food and supplies. We didn't panic or overbuy but we have enough food for about a week's worth of dinners with food in both the fridge and the freezer along with a small amount of toilet rolls!
