Dark chocolate from Poland.
I guess you could say I'm polishing off this Polish bar of dark chocolate.

No quarantining if I visit the UK from next week. The need for quarantine and the costs of tests during it have kept me away from friends and family in the UK for a year and a half. Realising that I can now start to plan visits again is a huge relief.

Do keep your mask around: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cdc-covid-coronavirus-masks-indoors-vaccinated-people-pandemic The delta variant apparently also produces 1200 times the viral load in less time. So, the aerosols spewed out are massively more infectious.

Someone I follow on Pluspora just posted:

So one of my colleagues, doubly vaccinated (Astra), just tested covid positive. Life is a bitch.

Symptoms were two days of flu, but then everything went back to normal. I suppose you could say that the vaccine worked.

And how do you get covid? By having a son watching a football game in a pub.

[Simons] I know this. This is why I'm probably not going to go back to the office in a university with 7,000 students, not until most of them get vaccinated.