Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow!
It was around 2pm on an overcast West Yorkshire Saturday afternoon. In a barbers shop seat a middle aged northern Englishman, who'd not had a haircut for sixteen weeks, sits in anticipation at the imminent removal of his unkempt lockdown locks. This man's mood conflicted. On one hand he has grown tired of his unmanageable locks,... Continue Reading →
Shut Uppa Your Face!
On Wednesday afternoon, I embarked on a brief social distancing compliant tarry to the White Rose Shopping Centre (WRSC) in south Leeds. Apart from optician visits to procure new gigs, my first sojourn inside it's hallowed retail halls since lockdown. Before COVID slithered uninvited upon the shores of this sceptred isle, I'd journey on an... Continue Reading →
“Time!”
According to BBC News, some UK pubs are already calling "Time gentleman, please!", closing back down only days after lockdown easing allowed their re-opening. The move consequential from drinkers at those establishments testing positive for COVID, along with fears revellers were disregarding social distancing edicts. The affected boozers, which form only a very small proportion of... Continue Reading →
Going Viral
It's been interesting, but kinda expected, to witness the rise in musical performances on social media during COVID lockdown. Whether via karaoke, or Tik Tok clips, it appears the public are making ever more concerted efforts to go viral whilst they avoid getting viral. Yours truly doesn't watch all 'party pieces' that drop onto my... Continue Reading →
With A Little Help From My Friends
Yesterday evening saw me participate in the fifth zoom quiz night with some buddies from the north east of England. A clambake including its usual heady mix of inquisition, live music and whimsical banter borne from decades long amiability. The protagonist's feasting on an eclectic smorgasbord of frolics, inquiries, interspersed by the acoustic guitar soundscape... Continue Reading →
Anagram Fiasco
This morning, as yours truly sought to entertain myself during a barren hour in-between breakfast and scratching around the place, I secured refuge in creating anagrams from the word COVID. This wordplay which despite only manifesting meagre locutions like cod, void and video (well, nearly) filling in part of yours truly's waking hour..... Although, as I... Continue Reading →
Brouhaha
Yesterday my Twitter timeline contained a query tweet asking those witnessing for one word to describe 2020 at this current juncture. Wanting to avoid cliched responses of locutions like 'unprecedented', 'COVID', 'lockdown' and 'coronavirus', yours truly plumped for 'brouhaha' as an apt descriptive for the last six months. Brouhaha, a wonderful three syllables, not to... Continue Reading →
Empty Days
There's a plethora of adaptations which the global family've been forced to embrace on planet COVID. Social distancing, lockdown, denial of meeting friends and family just a few undesired concessions necessitated by the pathogen. Consequential of this, it dawned on me how a section of these restrictive edicts have rendered worthless the need of diary... Continue Reading →