Cheers for the kind thoughts, good people! I'm fine today except for this horrible cough (worst I can remember having) but Mrs Steve is still under the weather.

As I said, we have a supply of test kits that we amassed when they were still free. I think that the withdrawal of free test kits was a huge mistake (last I heard, four tests at Boots cost £17). Our symptoms have been very different from each other's since we both tested positive on Monday, so, had we not had test kits (and let's face it, the vast majority of people are not going to want to pay that kind of money in these tough times), how would we have known who had or didn't have what? There must be droves of people out and about who feel a bit unwell, or not even that, untested, spreading the virus. I'm sure that's how we caught it at the Memory Café. I don't know how the science works for this, but let's say I'm not exactly surprised that infection numbers are currently as high as ever. I think that withdrawing the free kits was a false economy for the country. I know that the strains are not the same, and that other factors were involved and that the public mindset was far more cautious, but the two summers before this one had tiny numbers of cases compared to this summer...