Month: March 2020

I woke up today to hear that as from tomorrow afternoon all schools will be closed.  I look out of the window and see a grey sky and drizzling rain. I have eight days left before my MOT runs out so I'm hoping that the contact I made in Trowbridge will result in a sale.  I'm debating whether to hoard food for our fridges full and the local supermarkets seem to be well enough stocked. ***** Some...

We escaped from our London holiday last week just in time because within a couple of days of our leaving, Boris Johnson our Prime Minister made all sorts of announcements that put the fear of God into most people and made them less likely to touch never mind hug, to have fellowship with each other, to gather together and described the need to self isolate at home for a period of so many weeks,...

This is our last day in London.  I have managed much better than I thought with the energies of the capital,  probably assisted by the fact that there are very few people around.  I was happy to give a tip to one of the waiters at the breakfast in the hotel. She is called Luz,  which in Spanish means "light". The given name is shortened from Nossa Senhora Da Luz, a Roman Catholic epithet of the...

To the Mall Gallery, situated amazingly enough in The Mall,  in central London where they have frequent exhibitions including many by portraitists.  There were three exhibitions on when we came.  One was by The Wapping Group of Artists. It was entitled "London and its River". I saw many examples of the Thames at Richmond, my old stamping ground.  In the spring and autumn the tide comes above the...

I wonder how much old friends change.  I suppose we wouldn't notice because of us both changing, for example getting old physically. In that case we would see the other person in exactly the same light. I normally only speak to the friend that I was meeting by telephone or e-mail and in a way we have telepathic contact which means that a physical meeting is not necessary from the technical point...

It's very nice to get up when you feel like it.  The only restriction we have here at the hotel was that the breakfast closes at 10 AM so if you've any sense you go down to the breakfast room by 9:30 AM unless you want to feed on scraps and 'been kept hot for too long' food. As we had a little time to spare before meeting our friends, we alighted at Euston and popped in to the Wellcome Museum,...