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Not that I need any more cricket kit, but ….. I was looking for a pair of Masuri Pads recently, and I was asked by a couple of people if …
Not that I need any more cricket kit, but ….. I was looking for a pair of Masuri Pads recently, and I was asked by a couple of people if …
Gooseberry Ice Cream. Parents 60th Anniversary. Siestas. Two totally different losses, The Hundred & Bat Refurbishment. Who needs Spain eh!? A frustrating weekend playing no cricket on what was the …
I love watching the IPL but have no interest at all in who wins, which is strange for me because as a rule I don’t watch sport unless I actually …
Last Lockdown 3.0 post, and hopefully last Lockdown post ever – you and me both – as this week welcomed the first milestone on our release back into the wild …
Earlier this year, at the end of January surprisingly, I completed my 34th consecutive Dry January, not that it was called that when I started! To be honest whilst I …
I am returning to the cricket field this year for the first time in 33 years, aged 57, I am going to donate money to the NHS for every run …
I clapped them, I stayed inside for 12 months to save them, I even understood when they saved Boris, all the time getting angrier and angrier that successive Governments had …
Whilst Cats, COVID-19 and Cricket have dominated by Twitter feed this week (not unusual to be fair) by far the most important, and distasteful, issue has been the cyber bullying …
Vaccination Day looms. My father has had both of his vaccinations (Pfizer), my mother her first (Oxford) with the second scheduled for April, and Sandra her first (Oxford) with her …
Am beginning to think that Twitter should introduce some for of pre sign up test (to ensure people can read) and maybe some entry level of intelligence could be set …
A recurring criticism (from me at least) of the handling of COVID-19 by the Government here in the UK has been the reluctance (am being generous) or the inability (nearer …
Another week ticked off, but as to how many more we face who knows? Certainly not this government, or social media, or the so called experts expressing their opinions on …
Back in March 2020 as the UK entered it’s first, and let’s be honest only thing remotely like a, Lockdown much was made of the opportunity for a ‘new’ normal: …
Lockdown 3.0 continues, as does life, in a well established pattern now. The “trick” it seems is to do less and take longer doing it. To be fair this is …
Like many, I suspect, I have watched a number of old films again since March 2020, but somewhat ironically not Groundhog Day. No real reason why not, I enjoyed the …
I ask because I am a little concerned that I missed the memo cancelling the Lockdown. Walking the dogs back in March in our allotted hour per day we bumped …
Here we go again then, yet another Lockdown. I think this is Lockdown 3.0, but who knows with all the various tiers that we have accelerated through in recent months? …
As I write this Brexit is done, and the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been approved, and will join the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine being rolled out throughout the UK. With a …
Same Old, Same Old best sums up the Government, Public and Business approach to the relaxing of what the UK called Lockdown. I say it that way as I don’t …
My intention when I started this weekly diary was to summarise any impact the Social Distancing Rules had on our life, and those closest to us. I have to say …
As I write this Dominic Cummings is trying to dig himself out of a hole that he created, and in many way sums up the handling of the COVID-19 crisis: …
A different week for sure as although there has only been a very small relaxation in the social distancing guidelines (well small but illogical and as ever poorly communicated) it …
Writing this between the announcement last night from Boris, and the detail and clarification to be issued to Parliament this afternoon – which a cynic may say has given them …
Up front, to start with, for the avoidance of ANY doubt, let me be 100% clear – I am 100% against Care Homes for all cases other than those where …
I have said before that I doubt that very much will change post COVID-19 as the pressure will be on to return to ‘normal’ as quickly as possible. I mean …