Tag Archives: Life

My close encounter with a London Ghost last week!

Posted on October 28, 2020 by

It’s still a few days before Halloween and I have a whole plethora of Halloween themed posts as well as from history such as Corpse Roads and Dancing on the Dead at Enon Chapel – The Victorian Sensation! to more recent … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 68 – Today I will be meeting with Oliver Dowden, MP and Cabinet Minister

Posted on September 11, 2020 by

Today is the day after 6 months of campaigning, witty insults, cutting comments and deliberate government discrimination and impoverished ness; I get to meet with a senior Cabinet Minister to plead my case and those of 3 million others #ExcludedUK … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 67 – Pitching ideas to the national newspapers

Posted on September 9, 2020 by

Following all the events I’ve gone through in the last few weeks, I was kindly tipped off about a possible opening for writing an article for a newspaper as opposed to being the subject of them! Last week I pitched … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 59 – Finally I have something to sit on!

Posted on July 21, 2020 by

It’s hard to believe that I moved house on Friday 31st January and on Monday 3rd February at 10am I ordered my armchair and sofa. The advice to most of the planet was if you couldn’t go out then at … Continue reading →

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A moody photo of Stonehenge

Posted on July 17, 2020 by

A few weeks ago I was going through my ever growing library of photos on my iPad which stands at something like 64GB and I came across a particularly atmospheric photo I took of Stonehenge. Most people that I take … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 58 – An unfortunate accident!

Posted on July 16, 2020 by

I made a very rare social outing last week to meet a friend.  It wasn’t planned but I had to go to the bank and they happened to live just a minute away so we met up for a hot … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 56 – My first hug!

Posted on July 9, 2020 by

In England, last Saturday was known as Super Saturday with the first substantial re-opening of shops and pubs soon after most shops re-opened.   Of course none of that interested me in the slightest. It probably shows something of what … Continue reading →

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Happy 8th birthday to my blog!

Posted on July 8, 2020 by

Would you believe that on Sunday I was notified that my blog is 8 years old.  When I started I had no idea that I would still be writing almost a decade later.  I pretty much thought I’d be lucky … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 50 – Of Woodlice and men

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

I remember reading Of Mice And Men At School, it was in the 80’s when it was politically incorrect to be taught Shakespeare which had lasted centuries and so we read significant work from the early 20th century which now … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 48 – A bit of this, a bit of that.

Posted on June 9, 2020 by

I’m continuing my self-isolation which is probably a good thing as typically for my luck, the streets and neighbouring villages around where I live have the highest Covid mortality rate in the whole-country per head of population. With the electrician … Continue reading →

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