When you fly too close to the flame.....
Too Close To The Flame
“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 →
Half Term Report
“How do I define history? ..... It's just one f***ing thing after another” A whimsical quote borrowed from Leeds writer Alan Bennett's prose in the tome History Boys. An observation which, when dusk falls on the year 2020, will perfectly describe the twelve months being consigned to a very large toxic waste bin. As this... Continue Reading →
Meet The Gang
Yesterday evening GJ Strachan joined seven buddies to partake in a Zoom quiz. This inquisition, in part, a display of deference to folk singing/whistling legend Roger Whittaker. Amongst this reverence some group members fleetingly adorning card masks bearing the warbler's visage. This evening of esprit taking the form of general knowledge queries relating to a selection... Continue Reading →