Today is a special day, it is 42 days since I last had any physical contact with anybody and 84 days since I started my own social distancing. It was a great hug from a friend and knowing what was coming we broke the rules and had a special hug. It was a good luck… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 26 – Dying for a hug?
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Coronavirus Diary 25 – Planning for the future
I hope everyone is as well as can be in magnificent social isolation. Last night was of course our weekly 8pm Clapping For Carers where we come to our front doors and show our support for NHS workers. It’s my only social event of the week and it is giving the opportunity ever so slowly… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 25 – Planning for the future
Coronavirus Diary 24 – Zooming around London
I had a brainwave today which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is that I have the time to act on it! I’m rather in a quandary, I’m living in this beautiful though work-in-progress new house and despite being at home, I’ve reached the limits of what I can do without spending money or going out… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 24 – Zooming around London
Coronavirus Diary 23 – A visit to Caesar’s Pond, Stanmore.
If you remember a month or so ago I broke my curfew and went out through the woods to visit a new vantage point over London. On that day I made sure I would take a visit to a place known as Little Common on Stanmore Hill. Stanmore is an area of NW London in… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 23 – A visit to Caesar’s Pond, Stanmore.
Coronavirus Diary 22 – Parting is such sweet sorrow
A really short but not particularly sweet post today. The wife of one my guides has died following 23 days in a coma due to the Coronavirus. As he told me, she had years left in her to drive everyone mad. Poor fellow, he’s such a nice man and engaging, dutiful guide. I’d already lent… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 22 – Parting is such sweet sorrow
Coronavirus Diary 21 – Food parcels & emergency manouvres!
It’s 10 weeks now since I last earned a penny and couldn’t work due to the tube train incident which apart from the very odd trip out has been when my social isolation began in earnest. I’ve been in receipt of a weekly food delivery from friends; at least what they can find that I… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 21 – Food parcels & emergency manouvres!
Coronavirus Diary 20 – Make do and mend
The current virus pandemic is evoking lots of comparisons with WW2, at least in the U.K. Though the quantifiable loss of lives and poverty doesn’t come close, ironically the virus takes away the one thing that everyone in the 1940’s had, the ability to gain comfort in the company of others. One of the things… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 20 – Make do and mend
Coronavirus 19 – Social Distancing with 99 year old Captain Tom Moore and his multi-million pound fundraiser
I’ve touched on how nice I find it that celebrities and ‘stars’ have been thrust out of the lime-light this last month or so as finally the media wake up to what most of us knew… that they are almost pointless. I wish the attention were given to every day people who accomplish great deeds… Continue reading Coronavirus 19 – Social Distancing with 99 year old Captain Tom Moore and his multi-million pound fundraiser
Coronavirus Diary 18 – Social Distancing with Typhoid!
One of the things I love doing is studying maps; old and new. Having moved back to just one street away from where I spent my teenage years I’m now able to use the internet to piece together answers to questions that have been bugging me for much of my life but which no-one else… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 18 – Social Distancing with Typhoid!
Coronavirus Diary 17 – Social Distancing with Opera, Fräuleins and the low-skilled!
I was reading this morning that the social restrictions the government have put in place a month ago have been so successful that they are worried on how to convince people to come out again once it is safe to do so. I’d go a step further and say except for the whole Coronavirus, I… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 17 – Social Distancing with Opera, Fräuleins and the low-skilled!
Stephen Liddell 