2021 Lockdown – Day 13 It seems strange to us in the UK that the brand ‘Trump’ would be in any way attractive. To us…
The Smell of the Crowd
2021 Lockdown — Day 12 As individuals we’re at the bottom of the food chain and everything is on us. We are both the recipients…
Their Time is Up
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…