Supermarket joins the plague propagandists
I visited a Lidl supermarket for some essentials this evening and endured - suffered - virus propaganda over the loudspeakers that was beyond unnerving, and in a way almost mocking.
The way to persuade a Prime Minister
Lockdown voters might be wondering about the fellow they put in office a little too enthusiastically perhaps, but a book from across the Pond shows that even the revered can have strong views changed with a little help from, well, from their friends.
Lockdown hits more than just the living
Who would have imagined that our unimaginative Confined to Barracks government ruling is affecting more than our way of life, and very much our lives in almost every way, but also those who are no longer living.
Fate and me and an unsnapped photo
Was Fate laughing at me on Monday when I journeyed through the ghost town of London and on three ghost trains to Tilbury docks, over on the Thames north shore, determined - Corona nightmare or not - to photograph the docks where 70 years ago to the day the family sailed off to the other side of the world.
The modern answer to the plague: Sleep on it
I look up on this gorgeous Summer’s day, enjoying the flying antics of a wide variety of birds seeking mates, food, perhaps inspiration, and yet not one of the shiny big birds of our jet-age world is to be seen.
