....do you let your imagination roam? Friends tell me they’re planning a bank robbery and rehearsing being in prison. Well, they were until I reminded them that if they’re planning a bank robbery they...
…but so are its disputed wet markets.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/wuhan-is-returning-to-life-so-are-its-disputed-wet-markets
What’s the answer?...
In the absence of a response to my texts and answerphone messages to an elderly friend who lives alone, I’ve had a bit of a worrying day wondering if she’d had an accident. In fact, I almost called...
Good Friday, for Christians traditionally the day when no meat is eaten. For my household fish is always on the menu on Good Friday - not because we're religious - simply because we're products of a...
//The BCG vaccine gives immunity to tuberculosis, but mass vaccination was dropped in the UK in 2005 when rates of the lung infection dropped. Yet US-based experts now think the vaccine could improve...
Even though I’m not a foodie - I eat because I’d die if I didn’t - there are some things - simple things - that have impressed me enormously. The tap water in Iceland….the wonderfully warmed brandy in...
Does anyone know if there is a nationwide scheme in the current crisis to provide food parcels to the extremely vulnerable? I know two people living in different areas who fall into this category. One...
This question arises from a conversation I had here earlier - and it’s something to talk about other than the miseries of Coronavirus so that can’t be a bad thing. So … the Marxist Mantra - "From each...
Has anyone else stopped watching the news bulletins? I watch the headlines and then switch off. I find it all so depressing. I’m thinking of starting a Cheerful Clique. Glass half-full people are very...
Families in a Cheshire street have been sharing a novel form of daily exercise during the coronavirus lockdown, by assembling outside their homes each morning for some "socially-distant" dancing....
//https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/31/prince-william-wants-return-air-ambulance-pilot-support-nhs-12481709/ //
With royal duties pretty much on hold, good for him. What say you?...
I know it’s said that face masks are ineffective against Coronavirus but since everyone on the front line seems to wear them they must be useful at least. A little protection is surely better than...
MPs call for Sunday trading laws to be scrapped to ease supermarket queues during coronavirus outbreak. MPs describe the six-hour opening limit as “absurd” when the elderly and hard-working NHS staff...
