Lockdown Day 4: Thursday March 26th, 2020 Next? Grandpa – emphysema. I was seven by then. He was bedridden as long as I could remember, wreathed in a constant Capstan full-strength fog, assuring the doctor on his frequent visits that he’d really, really given up smoking this time despite the dead-give-away haze you could […]
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another day another dollar
Lockdown Day 2: Tuesday 24th March, 2020 Another day another dollar.Not too bad this lockdown lark. I could get used to this. Up for a coffee. Commute to the study. Logon. Do Brexit. Have a few brews. Kerching! Silver lining to this dire disease is that it has swept away the remnants of the remainiac […]
the fabric of life
Lockdown Day 2: Tuesday 24th March, 2020 Grandad died.” I stopped. And waited. Then waited some more. Terry chuckled, “Trick, your ignorance is encyclopaedic. Even on my death bed you won’t cut me some slack. Come on. Give up the good stuff. All the juicy bits. The secrets go to the grave with me. I […]
Tic. Toc.
Lockdown Day 1: Monday 23rd March, 2020 Darkness you can wrap around you. Darkness you can melt into. Darkness at the edge of town, in the centre, the suburbs, the parks and gardens, squares and alleyways, dormitory districts and arterial avenues. That’s what it’s feeling like tonight. First day of the future. First day […]