It’s Sunday afternoon. Harriet has been released from Lockdown at the Care Home and she is unable to go back to work there until she has 1. Been tested for Covid-19 and 2. Been given the all-clear. As several of our family are designated as ‘Key Workers’ in the Covid-19 pandemic, we have each receivedContinue reading “Being Probed”
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Being Moist
There’s only one word for it in my vocabulary and that is Moist. Although others might shy away from this five-letter word and do everything within their power to avoid saying it, there can be no real alternative, it is the genuine article, it is the real deal, it has to be Moist. Dew ladenContinue reading “Being Moist”
Being Labelled
A few chapters ago you may recall to mind in the blog entitled Isolation, the topic of my working life’s symmetry; how my office now is a mirrored reflection of where it all started. For this next chapter in Life’s Rich Tapestry, we gravitate from our present situation of Isolation, Retreat, Social Distancing and YogaContinue reading “Being Labelled”
Yoga for the Afflicted…
Being a Director of a company that has to Carry On Regardless whatever global issue befalls us, I have just returned home from a difficult day at the office. Like the Eye of Sauron, the Covid-19 pandemic is turning its gaze and attention towards us, exhaling deeply it’s fetid breath of daily death in ourContinue reading “Yoga for the Afflicted…”
Being Happy
Being happy can be described as having a certain state of mind where all around is in harmony and there is peaceful acceptance of the current conditions and situation. If I were to say this is one of those times, you would quite rightly deduce that I have lost the plot, my marbles have escapedContinue reading “Being Happy”
Good Morning…
“Good morning, it’s the undertaker here…..” Good Friday is one of those days on the calendar that conjures up memories from the past, of death, darkness and decay. With good reason, as Good Friday afternoons were usually spent as a family, sat sitting in a decaying, mouldy, dank, village church, the younger among us bemoaningContinue reading “Good Morning…”
Fear of the Unknown
Whenever we find ourselves in a new situation, an experience that we yet have to witness or an event we must endure, it is not uncommon to have that unsettling feeling – fear of the unknown. From time immemorial, since humans first crawled from caves to hunt and kill, to survive, we have been constantlyContinue reading “Fear of the Unknown”
Social Distancing
So far, I have had three weeks of separation from my daughter, Harriet. It is one thing to still visit us when the government has ‘suggested’ we all stay at home, it’s something entirely different when you’re insisting on bringing your friend with you too, who is just down from London! As advisory suggestions madeContinue reading “Social Distancing”
Carry On Regardless 