Advent 2020
Hard to believe that it’s December and we’re coming to the end of a year that has presented many challenges. In the Christian tradition, candles are lit for Advent, representing hope, love, joy, peace, and the light of the world. This year we’re waiting for vaccines, an end to lockdowns and tiers and I’ve tried […]
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Précis Journalists are trained, taught from the beginning, to précis, never to use 100 words where 10 will do, and yet here they are, every morning, filling page after page with coronavirus news, analysis, the latest pet theories, words to reassure or just to pile on worries, anxieties, anguish, doubts with no possibility, or so […]
Day Five
Walking on the common this morning it struck me that my life tends to revolve around commitments, diary entries, planned get togethers. I was going through the mental process of regretting the loss of concerts, theatre trips, a planned visit to the Hay festival, get togethers with friends and so on, while being aware that […]
Day Three
This social distancing business is more time consuming than you’d think. After the fine plans of all the activity in the free time, just organising it seems to fill the day. Probably this is because we’re both in self isolation, having gone down with something which may or may not be Covid19. We’ll probably never […]
Cancellations and opportunities
This feels like day one of a new regime. Lots of new rules to observe, even if they’re presented as advice. Cut out social interaction, avoid the pub, no gatherings, self isolate where symptoms present. And more still for the over 70s and those with health problems. So where do we go from here? Yesterday […]