Category Archives: covid-19 diary

Global confirmed cases: 1,450,343; total deaths: 83,568 (JHU) UK confirmed cases: 560,733; total deaths: 7,097 (DHSC) Today was my last day doing a job where someone else paid me. Now doesn’t feel like the best time to do doing the … Continue reading →

Global confirmed cases: 1,280,046; total deaths: 69,789 (JHU) UK confirmed cases: 51,608; total deaths: 5,373 (DHSC) I’m not usually one to participate in things I get tagged in on Facebook because…well, I just don’t. But sometimes ones come along that … Continue reading →

Last week we had frosts. This weekend we started with spring and finished in summer; a gorgeous weekend for those of us lucky enough to have a garden. I feel so bad for those in flats, especially as idiots seem … Continue reading →

There is a nature reserve at the top of our road.  90% of the runs (plods) that I have done for the last 2 years have gone through there one way or another, but I’ve probably walked up there with … Continue reading →

There always have been and there always will be ‘experts’.  I don’t mean actual experts – people with qualifications and knowledge about what they talk about, I mean the sort of ‘experts’ who saw a post that Mandy* off face … Continue reading →

Little Pea made banana bread and wrote it up in his diary: Mum and Dad have acquired an increasingly tame pheasant (possibly because of the quieter roads around them) which they are now feeding: And have Sister 2 taking part … Continue reading →

I mean, you know it’s gone weird.  This is a global level of weirdness that even people living under stones would have noticed, because it’s all gone quiet and now we can hear the birds sing. I thought I’d start … Continue reading →