Blog.  The Covid diaries are no more.  After all, lockdown is easing (not for me it isn’t, no chance, I’m staying in until The Virus has buggered off) and I can’t forever name every post a Covid post. Son no.2’s birthday came and went during … Continue reading Animal Crossing Adventures cont.

I am guilty of prejudice; of making snap judgements based on a momentary acquaintance. Last week Clay, the chubby hamster, was milling around the entrance to Blather’s museum. I am used to my fellow island residents wandering around in a peculiarly aimless fashion, but this … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – May 11th

Should a scientist’s private life be a matter for public concern?  Owen Jones of the leftist Guardian whinges (and he's not the only one.)  The photograph of Ferguson’s married lover looms large against the tabloid pic of Ferguson himself, Jones continues to whinge. This is … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – May 7th

I nearly forgot to clap for the NHS last night, so far gone was I in my digitally generated new world of Animal Crossing. I was midway through catching a porker of a fish (turned out to be the gigantic oarfish) when I heard the … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – May 1st

Blog. To begin with, here is my vocal tribute to Captain Tom Moore. This is so I never forget that once there was a 99-year-old bloke (soon to be 100) living quietly in Bedfordshire, who achieved global fame, via tottering around a bit in his … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 27th

The Nook Cranny shop has finally landed on my Animal Crossing island. Like a Judas, the price I paid for building the shop was thirty pieces each of wood, hardwood, softwood and iron nuggets. The various woods were easy. The iron nuggets flummoxed me, since … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 20th

Blog.  We’ve been larking about making a quarantine video for the sister. A big part of me felt b-a-d that here was I, all singing and all dancing (along with the husband and sons nos 2 and 3) to the tune of Sweet Caroline (which … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 14th

Blog, I now know why my GP was so dismissive of The Virus. Writing in The Guardian (seems to be my go-to paper these days, probably because it’s one of the few that you can read for free) a GP catalogued his experience with Covid-19, … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 5th

Dearest Blog So, Dr Campbell lately has a catchy phrase he’s employing for use during these times of The Virus.  That phrase is: Two meters distance determines our existence. Pithy wouldn’t you say. Just the sort of mantra you can rhythmically repeat to yourself as … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – April 3rd

Dearest Blog. Never have the newshounds had it so good.  Never have they wagged their tails with such glee, whilst sniffing out every single coronavirus tidbit, no matter how tenuous the link. Today one of the BBC’s old journo dogs, holed up in isolation at … Continue reading Covid-19 Diaries – March 31st