Category Archives: Lockdown Diary

…Despite the lovely sunny day birds were few and far between. We drove down the tracks to the fishing lakes where we have seen some good farmland birds but we only connected with one flock feeding in stubble. They were … Continue reading →

A day long break in the weather was too rare to waste… so we went for our ‘permitted’ exercise to the outer limits of our ‘locality’.  Reculver is officially part of Thanet, which is sort of ironic as the original … Continue reading →

I recently started using my photos as a screen saver… randomly selected phots appear on the screen when it’s in standby mode. An awful lot of rubbish pictures appear, but even the worst evoke a memory or two. Somehow makes … Continue reading →

I haven’t much to say, so why am I saying it? Probably, because my feelings are probably shared by millions of ordinary people who are not clinically depressed but are getting fed up with the tedium of not being able … Continue reading →

A number of my friends waiting for their vaccinations have asked me what the ‘side effects’ are like. It happens that I know a couple of people who have had their too so here is a summary. Pfizer jab… Maggie … Continue reading →

I guess yesterday was momentous… we received our first covid vaccination. In our case it was the Pfizer one.  At least it prompted me out of my lethargy and into blogging mode again. The process was interesting and surprisingly efficient. … Continue reading →

We rarely get snow… most years none, some years a day or two which quickly disappears. Here is our first of the winter, albeit very wet snow that later turned to rain. As they say… what a difference a day … Continue reading →

This is me today racked with sciatica, and feeling very much like punching the world in the face… hopefully normal service will shortly be resumed!

Our incompetent government has responded to imagined dilemmas throughout the pandemic, while its relentless knee-jerking has failed to tighten definitions and so created dilemmas for us ordinary folk. The biggest imagined dilemma has been whether to lock down society securely … Continue reading →

I heard the other day that some people have been given a sticker when they are vaccinated against Covid and that these are being sold on eBay to idiots who want to avoid being vaccinated. Maybe it’s apocryphal, maybe it’s … Continue reading →