Tag Archives: Diary

Coronavirus Diary 84 – Deserted icons of London in Winter

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Stephen Liddell

A few days ago I took two lovely people around some of the most famous sights in London. Normally even in January there would be crowds of people everywhere but as you can see out of millions of people, we … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 83 – The (lack of) joy at Christmas and discombobulated thoughts

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

I must admit that I don’t feel 1% Christmassy and that is 1% less than last year when at least I knew everyone else was to various degrees miserable and isolated but I’m 22.5 months now into being Excluded (15 … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 79 – I have Covid 19 :-(

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Morning everyone, I hope all is well. I’ve been quiet but not away. Some of you may have noticed that my 9 year streak of posting at least twice a week has recently been broken. This won’t be my longest … Continue reading →

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Why has my MP and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden left me to die?

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Morning everyone! I wasn’t going to put this here though I wrote it elsewhere and had lots of feedback. I’ve had few people who I’ve never met send me emails the last week or two so I thought I would … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 75 – Finding a Holy and Magical Well in St Albans.

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

I’ve been to a few Holy Wells in my time, some ancient pagan wells and some slightly less ancient but still extremely old Christian ones.  The problem with wells in cities and particularly near to London is that they are … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 73 – I got my vaccine!

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Wednesday the 3rd of March was a big day for me for several reasons, I had another #1 book, The Budget was held in Parliament (more on that next time) and most eagerly awaited of all it was the day … Continue reading →

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Oops, I did it again!

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Just a short post today as I had something else planned and it wasn’t another reference to a Britney Spears song. As you may remember, my new book £xcluded Voices was released on Monday and within hours it reached number … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 72: Being a Good Samaritan to the living and having a hot drink with the dead.

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

One of the things I really miss about being Excluded and not able to work as well as Shielding alone is being able to help people. I really really miss it. I know I still help lots of people from … Continue reading →

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Having an Excluded Christmas and a Shielding New Year

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

Today marks the 11 month anniversary since I last had a full days work.  It’s hard to believe that almost a year has gone by and as almost everyone has Well I’ve had a worse Christmas than this year but … Continue reading →

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A not very good review of a pretty rubbish year, 2020.

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Having a special interest in chest infections, it was about 55 weeks ago when I first heard of what was to become the Coronavirus.  It took until January before the first hints of it were dismissed in the mainstream awareness … Continue reading →

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