Category: Lockdown

Dear Maddie (and Mitko)! ! They held on didn’t they, hoping against hope that they could do it and hold a socially distanced festival. ! ! Very annoyed with your flights cancelled and no refund. Who were you flying with? Could you negotiate an exchange with a ticket for next year roughly same time to… Continue reading Coronavirus letter to Maddie

April 2020 Dearest Louise I often wonder why has it taken me so long to write to you. I think of talking to you most Sunday’s and other days too, collecting both ideas and questions for you. It’s a reward, you see, a gift to write to you. I feel the need to clear the… Continue reading Coronavirus letter to Louise

US suffers worst daily death toll in the world at nearly 1,200

This time last week, we were walking in Benacre, (as others were bumper to bumper in Snowdon, and escaping to Scotland and the Lakes). Trump imitation is in high production. An advertisement ridicules Trumps response to CORVID 19 by juxtaposing quotes from Trump with a graph that traces the exponential growth of coronavirus cases. I… Continue reading Coronavirus lockdown week 2 – Saturday /Sunday

Walk with Sara at Walberswick, a good route away from the sea with plenty of space for us to walk with healthy 2 meter separation. She is anxious. Protecting Jeremy. Watching news. Anticipating events as they fall. Of course, this is why we love each other, one of us skeptical to the others glass half… Continue reading Coronavirus lockdown week 1 Monday

Postponed, the word of these CORVID 19 days, emails coming in every day, with the unsurprising announcements: Event postponed. The first I recall was the James Bond aptly entitled film No Time to Die back on March 4.  Yes what feels way back then when the virus was still a remote concept in some far… Continue reading Social Distanced Vernal Equinox (March 20)