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“Hell is other people”. So wrote Sartre in his play of 1943. Philosophy is not my forte, but If I were writing an update in 2020 I would write, “Hell is other people and their blasted noise”. Here we are in enforced lockdown in a beautifully warm and sunny Easter weekend, trying to enjoy theContinue reading “Blog 39. Three (and a half) Weeks In”

Week Two of Twelve is nearly over and things seem to have settled down a bit here now.  The supermarkets are quiet and almost normal (still no flour though).  Isolation continues, but that has been no hardship for us.  It is debatable whether a point of inflexion has yet been reached on the UK’s CV19 death curve, butContinue reading “Blog 37. Two Weeks In”

We have had yet another sunny and frustrating few days. Frustrating, of course, because we cannot leave home.  We went shopping to Lidl on Wednesday afternoon, the theory being that most people would be sitting in their gardens enjoying the sunshine.  We were right: there were only about six people in Lidl and we fulfilledContinue reading “Blog 36. One Week In”

Day Three since Self Isolation and Day One of Lockdown.  The Prime Minister moved on last night from, “Come on chaps, be sensible” to, “Well, I did warn you.  Now I’m jolly cross.  Stay in or be fined”.   As to fines, well, what the police should do to offenders is fine them one packContinue reading “Blog 35. Day 1 of Lockdown”