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  • Isolation

    Yesterday, I started to get shivers reminiscent of a fever, and I started to panic. Have I got Covid-19? It seemed a pretty mild fever, but I had been seeing reports of symptoms suddenly coming on like a ton of bricks. ... [More]
  • Furloughed

    So, pretty much on the heels for Boris Johnson announcing the lockdown, I received news from my workplace ... [More]
  • Christ Will Return- but on what Channel?

    So, to the surpise of no-one, Boris Johnson has announced that the UK is officially in Lockdown. ... [More]
  • Last Orders

    It was long time coming. Our apparent Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had to announce it at some point. He didn’t want to do it, it was an aknowledgement of failure to his Brexit Gammon voters, but finally he had to do it. There was no choice. The projections about the virus were obvious. I knew this before he did, or publically wanted to say it. But this afternoon, he admitted it for real. ... [More]
  • The Last Dance?

    So, almost a week into me working from, I publicly appeared as Novice Wye Dangle of the OPI, and I was guessing that this might be the last time I do this in public for a while. ... [More]
  • You Have the Power

    In general, there has been a bit of a feeling that things are heading South. It was only at the start of this week that our work told us to take our laptops home with us every night, just in case we needed to work from home because of the Coronavirus pandemic. (And indeed it is a pandemic, the World Health Organisation said so.) ... [More]
  • Working from Home

    At the place I work, rather than office computers, we all have laptops. This is partly because there is a policy of “hot-desking”, but also it can allow for us to work with clients at their offices. Since our business affairs are more or less wholly online, it means we can more flexible in where we work from. It can also allow for working from home. ... [More]
  • The Sound of Washing Hands

    One thing I have been seing recently on Twitter is that people have been posting instructions for washing hands in order to ward off Covid-19. Originally it was to the lyrics of “Happy Birthday”, but more recently, ... [More]
  • A Canary in the Wharf

    Feburary was on a leap year this year, so it was an ideal year to celebrate the civil partnership of my husband and I, which took place on 29th February 2008, especially since we had just officially converted to full marriage at the start of this year. To celebrate, we we took a long weekend (The 29th falling on the Saturday.) in London. We booked a holiday with Caledonian Travel- a coach ride down on the Friday, stay at hotel for two nights, then the coach back up on Sunday. ... [More]
  • Ah, Bless!

    I mentioned in an earlier post about blessing a venue as part of my work in the OPI, but what is that? ... [More]

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