Category: Lockdown

I've missed out on Trump these days. The Fact Check appears not to be operating its usual nightly check, may be because Trump is not giving regular Rose Garden or whatever press calls. But he's back. He's taking hydroxychloroquine - it's supposed to be good for you.  You couldn't make it up. Meanwhile federal regulators… Continue reading Be Alert – Trump is back

Theatres, pubs, restaurants, all social hubs of air molecules of moisture emanating from our chattering mouths potentially carrying and passing on COVID19, are all closed. Each finds it's way of opportunity. To some it may be taking the furlough road, getting all those jobs done in the house and garden, or exploring the B roads… Continue reading Lockdown Fox&Goose dinner

I came to see the sea, after months lockdowned in the woods The dogs went berserk, yelping, clawing windows, changing seats As if they too recalled the route, smelt the sea, sensed the light Or knew of my childhood when my mother, like every other mother challenged '6p for the first to see the sea'.… Continue reading Seeing Sea with Sara

Biked up to the wood for last meet with the departing Sam - for him to show me where the Nut Hatch is nesting in the ash tree. He has been a good spirit in the wood, practically he has done much, taught me a lot, not lease of which is to look up at… Continue reading Lockdown Sunday

We'll do the usual, Michael and I will have some banter. 'I haven't got any desk top left', says Michael, berret on. Dean changes his backdrop to Paulo Nerado's front room, or a mexican desert, or a library of books. Cycling Suffolk Past glimpses of fields still wild with red campion Down tarmac roads growing… Continue reading Lockdown Dean and Michael zoom poets

As I sous cheffed to Michael's Tuna Steak and mango/avocado salad, we caught on Channel 4 news an interview with the historian James Holland – and the comedian Al Murray – discussing the parallels between what the world went through during the war and our current CORVID 19 reality. Similes Is Boris Churchill, the rifles… Continue reading Lockdown Friday – VE Day (EofW)

Buddha moon - On Vesak Day, Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all traditions: The birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Buddha. The first of the possible full moons of May. Vesak - Martin reminded me. Martin from South of France on Facebook, he'd just recovered from CORVID… Continue reading Lockdown Thursday

My community, in Colchester and Chelmsford, Zooming On morning run I met Mike as usual, but this time  finally asking him why he was in a wheel buggy. Of course, it's a story. He was an engineer on ships Great Yarmouth way, up early in the mornings, he was the on who would link the… Continue reading Lockdown Suffolk

It started on Facebook, I think from a site like board panda, who attributed the origins to Adobe: when booooom.com partnered with Adobe to create the Remake project, which invited students across the U.K. to recreate famous artworks with photography. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, locked down, creatively challenged people to recreate some of… Continue reading Lockdown Land of Cockaigne