Day 8

​Red Refugee, HMP Sofitel, Heathrow 

Well today’s early wake up was a PCR test being delivered to my door, so at 07:15 I stuck an elongated cotton bud up my nose…..
(Thank fully at 21:30 I received an email to say it’s negative, again…..)
So just to confirm that’s now:
2 vaccine injections 
2 Lateral Flow tests, negative
2 PCR tests, negative 
Before flying out to Pakistan.
50 days of seclusion in our bubble
1 lateral flow test, negative
1 PCR test, negative
Return to UK
11 days of quarantine 
1 lateral flow test, negative
1 PCR test, day 2, negative
1 PCR test, day 8, negative

Perhaps in 2 more days Boris might think I’m safe enough to be allowed home to loved ones!
Has anyone else done this amount of tests? Hmmmmmm

Today’s grumble is more of an admittance of breaking the rules, openly going against the rules and doing my own thing.

Frustrated, again

At 18:40 I called the hot line, 7709 security and asked that I be allowed to go for a walk. He said because of staff shift swaps I’d have to wait until 19:15, 35mins. When I asked why this was an issue because historically I had very rarely been walked all the way outside, usually the over weight security guard would waddle just as far as was needed to show some willingness, so needing someone to escort me was just bollocks!
Frustrated at 19:15 I had, had no notice I could go, 19:20, 19,25 and at 19:30 I just left!
I walked out past 2 security guards and as I approached the 3rd “guarding” the lift (stairs and escalators are out of bounds) he asked which room I was from, 3306 I replied and continued my escape….. from then on nothing was different, no other checks, no other issues,  just a straight forward walk outside.
To me, it just goes to show that these nonsensical rules are pointless, pointless to the cause of stopping the spread and very much pointless in getting us inmates to abide by the rules.!