Self-isolation will be devastating for many people, emotionally and financially. Robert and I are fortunate.
Month: March 2020
British Baroque
Where Two or Three are Gathered
I Don’t Believe It!
A Limpid Dreary Day
This morning I went to the Polish Café by the tube station to buy lunch. It is only doing take-away sales. The corner shop was busy but had run out of eggs. A long queue outside the butcher. A sign on the chemist’s door: “no Ibuprofen, thermometers or hand gel”. Oddbins also have a sign:… Continue reading A Limpid Dreary Day
Country Life
The Virus in Numbers
185,426 people live in Hammersmith and Fulham. We have 23 cases of Coronavirus; just 0.01%, so far. The BBC website has area by area data. It is also interesting to put the spread of the virus into an international context and Worldometers.info is the place to go. The data is updated daily at midnight UK… Continue reading The Virus in Numbers
Go to Work on an Egg
This is the best thing since sliced bread; just the job for brightening breakfast in these dark days of uncertainty. It combines elegance and functionality, looking perfectly at home beside the Dualit toaster. What is it? Take a look. By dropping a steel ball onto the hemisphere covering the egg, the shell… Continue reading Go to Work on an Egg
Where did you get that hat?
When I was in Russia in January I was mocked by a friend as looking like Monsieur Hulot; he was right. Another friend asked me if my hat had been made by Mr Lock. Quick as a flash I told him that it had come from Master Bates. A vulgar joke but it hit the… Continue reading Where did you get that hat?