A friend of mine is playing an acoustic gig in Bristol tomorrow evening. When the show was announced a month or so ago I fully intended to go, it would have been my first gig since February, but that's obviously out of the question now.

Bristol is just 44 miles away. Apparently, the Covid-19 infection rate there last week was 265 per 100,000 people. Here in Cardiff, it was 305 per 100,000 people. Not a huge difference by any means. However, the pubs, restaurants and shops here are closed, while over the bridge they're staging gigs in small venues. It doesn't feel right at all.

Could be worse, though. In Powys and Ceredigion, the infection rate last week was less than 50 per 100,000 people, but those areas have been locked down all the same.