It’s been nearly a full week since we went into isolation. Shock, we haven’t killed each other yet. In fact we’ve all been quite civil with each other. We eat together and we pray together. We occasionally sit down and watch something on the box together. Most of the day the kids are doing their […]

As the human race is ravaged by a new type of virus, slowly our planet seems to be coming back to life. The levels of pollution over major cities is reducing. The water in ports and rivers is starting to clear up. Aquatic wildlife is being seen in places that would have been unexpected just […]

I dreamt I had long glossy hair. Waking up to see my bald head in the mirror was slightly traumatic. I saw one of my younger brothers today. I asked him to drop a parcel off to the post office and pick up a few essential groceries from Tesco. I left the parcel in the […]

Our Prime Minister has just announced some additional measures. Apparently people haven’t been taking self-isolation seriously. This has forced the PMs hand. There are some really selfish people out there, but at the same time there are many good people too. One of those good people lives in my community and has been putting himself […]

I slept in today. I woke up at 10am and vaccumed the house whilst the missus saw to breakfast. Homemade pancakes served with chopped strawberries and a little caramel sauce. After, we watched an episode of Masterchef with cups of coffee in our hands. In the afternoon I used Google Hangouts to teach an A-level […]

The inevitable happened today. After a whole day of self-isolating, my wife decided it was time to spring clean the living room. 😟 Breakfast was toast with scrambled eggs. I mixed in some spring onions, half a green pepper and a whole chilli (seeds included). A video call with my big brother and both of […]

Education providers have been closed down today for the foreseeable future. I’m a lecturer and my wife works in a primary school, so effectively we are home now for at least next 3 months. Furthermore, three of us in my household are high risk for the virus, meaning we have underlying issues that could become […]

So, this happened. The Booker prize was shared between two authors despite rules being in place to prevent that from happening. One writer happens to be a black woman and advocate of diverse voices in writing and the other is a middle class, white female and Bestselling author (Margaret Atwood). You don’t have to be […]

The Washington Post recently published this article on an English science fiction novel from the early days of science fiction emerging as a genre. The article poses the question, was this the first cyborg? Some may say that the Hebrew golums were the first, however, they are powered by black magic and therefore fall into […]