2021 Lockdown — Day 11 We’ve all been there. You are on a mission and determined to see the thing through but there comes a…
Is There a Doctor in the House
2021 Lockdown – Day 10 Over 1500 people died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in the UK. As it happens, 1500 in Roman…
Taxination is the Answer
2021 Lockdown — Day 9 In the 1930s there was an epidemic raging throughout America and Europe killing and devastating hundreds of thousands. Western nations…
2021 Lockdown — Day 8
The Truman Show The Truman show is a 1998 film in which Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, the star of a TV reality show. Only…
2021 Lockdown – Day 7
Fixing Stuff Last week I upgraded to fibre broadband. That gives me something like a 7 times improvement in speed and it costs me £1…
2021 Lockdown — Day 5
The Theatre of Crisis It’s generally acknowledged that 536 AD was the worst year in history and was a prelude to a thoroughly miserable decade.…
2021 Lockdown — Day 4
Writing, writing, writing, writing This is getting weird. There seemed some point writing about the first lockdown because it was novel and we were all…
A Story of a Story
On Lockdown day 3 This is the 3rd day in my 2021 lockdown diary. Something shocking has happened. Not the storming of the Capitol Building…
2021 Lockdown — Day 2
The Same but Different Sky The sun is rising and the sky is clear. Clear just like the skies in our first lockdown. But I’m…
2021 Lockdown — Day 1
Embracing the Challenge I wrote every day for 60 days during last year’s lockdown and for 20 weeks, writing once a week after my 60…