Driven crazy when Sir goes bonkers
Just when it seems life's most aggravating challenges are passed - the kids are grown up, retirement is here, commuting is no longer vital - some very weird alternatives to peace spring up.
A really nasty disease with a very nasty history
Just when it seems we've learned all we might about the plague of the 1600s, the great-great-grandfather of our current killer, Wikipedia reveals that Daniel Defoe’s reports may well not be exactly an eye-witness account.
Two killer plagues, but two different reactions
It’s very intersting but disturbing to compare the reaction to our plague of 2020 and that of our forebears in the black plague of the 1600s.
Today's repeat of 400-year-old history
I’m reading an extraordinary book by an equally extraordinary writer who, extraordinarily, knew the previous plague extraordinarily well.