UPDATE:
Two weeks in self-quarantine. OK. used time to get rid of monster weeds in yard, do some painting and to wave at wife's family as they passed the gate waving back at us and smiling. That's OK, they filled our shopping list with groceries. Got to Norwich on day 15 and picked up the BRP. Guess what, they never changed the dates from when I was going to come over in April. It was now September. Notified the BRP error team and they sent me an email that my BRP in hand was now cancelled and to cut up and send them a picture of the destroyed card. And advised not to travel without the new card. It was November 3 and I was supposed to return to states with wife on 10 November....had to slip departure to 20 Nov.. yes that was taking a chance. Lockdown had no affect. But, the team delivered corrected BRP by courier a week before we were supposed to leave. (cost me another $700 for the schedule change).
Just got my ToR approved (took about two weeks to get) so now we can ship our stuff. Probably in January and early return (one way ticket) back to UK. That will allow us to enjoy holidays with son and daughter and grandkids.