• Lockdown 2 (Day 17): Norwich

    Saturday 21st November, 2020 A day spent doing less. I walk to Chapelfield Gardens and spent some time there enjoying a couple of cardboard cups of tea in the fresh air. The park is a convivial setting. Nearly every bench seat around the perimeter of the park and those bordering the elegant, empty bandstand at Read more

  • On Numbers (More)

    It’s said pathogens Have one aim; to reproduce. We no different. ~ n.b. Dress life up as we might, but without children we have no legacy; we die out as a species. All we do has no meaning without the generations that follow. We are otherwise just marking time. The sociability of humanity is how Read more

  • Lockdown 2 (Day 16): Norfolk

    Clear, dry, cold. Temperature at 09:00 hrs is just above freezing. I meet with my cycling buddy from Norwich and we set off at pace toward the countryside through Thorpe St. Andrew. Avoiding major roads we make our way to Acle. After a tea and bun from a café on the northside of the A47, Read more

  • Lockdown 2 (Day 15) Norwich

    A message from my son, the elder who works in a huge hospital on the south coast. His spirits have been lifted by the news of three vaccines that promise relief from the pandemic. This is the start of the third week of England’s second lockdown. 501 people are reported to have died today within Read more

  • On Numbers (ChAdOx1 nCov-19)

    Vaccination known by this code offers us hope don’t forget the cost ~ n.b. Not a number as much as a label for the latest vaccine that is thought to be able to generate antibodies and T cells that will adapt to protect most of us from Covid-19. The numbers are important: the 1 denoting Read more

  • On Numbers (Infinity)

    Everything we do today can make tomorrow a day worth having ~ n.b. God, give me strength to do the right thing. ~ CLP Read more