Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
It’s been 5 years since the lockdown. The human world was virtually under house arrest. The natural world 🌎 took a sigh of relief. Dolphins were spotted swimming in the Bosphorus, deer and mountain goats were seen roaming the streets of Britain and nature reserves saw a boom in animal populations. Introverts were supremely happy […]
Read More COVID DIARY DAY 9130It has now been a full year since we went into the first lockdown. People were nervous and anxious about what this strange new world would be like. A world behind locked doors, Internet grocery shopping, home exercise and (possibly the worst) home schooling. Two weeks in and we started to hear stories about dolphins […]
Read More COVID DIARY: A Year of FearIt’s been over a week since I got vaccinated. No further side effects beyond the cold shoulder and the flu(ish) symptoms for a day. I feel well (overweight, but well). The vaccine seems safe enough to me. I’m still shielding but the rest of the family is back to school. My son has gone back […]
Read More COVID DIARY: DAY 356 Back to SchoolYes, the title seems slightly misleading, but its not. Clearly, I am still alive and have managed to avoid Covid so far (in all its different mutated forms). I have played with the idea of pranking the Internet by playing dead, but eventually came to the conclusion that no one actually reads my blog (other […]
Read More COVID DIARY: DAY 348, The VaccineThe inevitable has happened. Parts of England have been forced to go back into lockdown. Easing restrictions as quickly as the government did was clearly a mistake. Allowing people to travel abroad was even more insane. But somehow this new lockdown seems to be more about social differences and less about what is sensible. The […]
Read More COVID DIARY: DAY 132 Return to Lockdown