“Immense,” is the word our builder used. “Immense,” he shook his head, and I should have taken more note of how he looked. His face was beetroot red. “Far mo...

Exhausted after seven days of doing up the house and garden, we drove our little used car from our tiny high street. The verges of the country lanes burst wi...

14 May It is not often life gets me down, and each time, I try to rise above it. “Good morning, how are you!” “I feel despondent,” I answered. The words blur...

Gradually lock-in is lifting around the world because some economies are in the worst state for 300 years. Lock-in has been harsh for lots of families, fina...

We live on a fault-line. Our ancient county is a strange mix of the old old and the new, sliced in half as it is by one of England’s most used highways - the...

They predicted mass mental wobbles with lock-in, but most people I know aren’t going insane because they are lucky. They are well, despite the rampaging viru...

On our Wedding Anniversary this week, I walked through this little town to do some shopping for a slap-up breakfast and what a gorgeous early morning it was....

It’s a time when none of us know if we’ll be here in four week’s time. That of course is always true but we plough onwards assuming we will live for decades,...

Life really is coloured by how we take it, even in the midst of disaster. Today each of us faces a world we never dreamed would exist - lock-in, well almost,...

I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, though I have no enemy, not even Trump nor David Icke. My heart goes out to poor Boris who ought not to have worked so ...

“I miss my friends,” the seven year old said. “I don’t know why I can’t play with them.” “I’m stir-crazy!” Grumbled a man we passed in the street. “It’s fant...

It is funny times. The world as we knew it has turned upside down, stepping from our doors we enter a world fraught with invisible danger, we are constantly ...

They poured out of the primary school, chatting nine to the dozen and three of them were chanting, “Corona, corona, I’m a virus, watch out!” I was driving ou...

“Aachoo! Aachoo!” Heads turn, I’m the centre of attention in the corona conscious street. A third and fourth time I sneeze. At least I do so into the crook o...

I go over my corona-fight programme as I click down the pavement, ensuring my crutch doesn’t trip the elderly brandishing walking sticks, snag the wheels of ...

The sun was shining for the first time since September. I exaggerate. It has shone a few times during the past five months, but only in bursts, an hour here,...

The tiny van slewed to a halt and out jumped a young woman wearing muddy gumboots. Her long golden hair flew in the wind as she flung open the back doors, pu...

We were walking along, chatting about the new house we hope to move into in a month. The drizzle pattered lightly on the glass roof and water trickled down t...

“Armageddon,” I heard somebody say, “is round the corner” I was about to walk away from what I thought was a religious argument, but stopped when the other o...

We were in sunny courtyard sipping coffee, licking crumbs of chocolate from our lips. Sun? Yes, sunshine after three months with almost none. Rather than enj...