Odd people say weird stuff everyday. Last week, a 40-something woman came into the booking hall to get out of the wind and roll up a cigarette. Against my unspoken wishes, she decided to instigate a conversation. She opened by stating that my life must be shit. Perhaps it is. I guess things depend on … Continue reading Blue Sky Thinking
You’d completely lost count, hadn’t you? You had no idea what day of lockdown we’re now on. But that’s my purpose in life. To provide regular readers and random passers-by with bits and pieces of pointless information. But anyway, it’s true. If you’re in the UK, this is Day 462. Admittedly, the UK has never … Continue reading Lockdown Day 462
I wrote a blog post recently (The Experiment) about how the UK is planning to fully ‘open up’ just as a new highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus starts to wreak havoc. Boris and co are getting twitchy. They don’t really know what to do at this point. This is understandable. There are forecasts, but … Continue reading Morals and Medicine
We are in for an interesting few weeks/months in the UK. Most people who are really vulnerable to Covid 19 have had both shots of vaccine. Most people over 35 have had the opportunity to have at least their first shot. In a month every adult will have had the chance of the first shot … Continue reading The Experiment
I rather like laws. The Rule of Law. Moore’s Law. The many laws of physics, all fascinating. I watched LA Law because it was filmed in Nicam stereo sound, and my new tangled TV set at the time was a Nicam set. But Murphy’s Law made for better viewing. The 1971 Peter O’Toole flick, not … Continue reading Mexile’s Law
There’s a common misconception amongst many ‘lockdown sceptics’ that those who approve of, or argue in favour of formal societal restrictions, like and/or enjoy lockdowns. I suppose there are a weird few who might do so. There’s always a ‘few’, isn’t there. People who like weird stuff that would have a normal person recoiling in … Continue reading Lockdown of Discontent
Some of the coronavirus debates have become more than a little tiresome, haven’t they? My sense of frustration rises when discussion starts to defy what few facts we do possess. The most basic of which is Rule Number One: the coronavirus is transmitted by direct and/or indirect person to person contact, most commonly through respiration, … Continue reading Rule Number One
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