Where to start?

The football, naturally enough. The funny thing about supporting my national side at football (or pretty much any sport, come to think of it), is that there is a huge collective expectation that this time things will be different, whilst knowing deep down that it really won't be different.

So, the first final in 55 years for the men ( Read more... )

Local news:

Downstairs are noisy this evening. I might have to get my angle grinder out and start cutting up bits of metal.

The gardeners appeared today, and appeared to do some actual gardening. I've planted out a rhodedendron, and dug up some of the fuchsia that succumed to the cold winter. The others, I have hopes for.

Pandemic news:

I got my ( Read more... )

This morning, I woke with a splitting headache and feeling something like i'd been hit by a train. I necked some paracetamol, and went back to bed.

Come lunchtime, I felt merely like I had a wicked hangover. More paracetamol, and I logged on to work. Work was the normal sort of affair, though I had a few knotty issues to get into, and a few people ( Read more... )

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55814751

Today, the number of deaths associated with Covid-19 / Sars-Cov-2 / Coronavirus passed 100,000. This is enough people to fill a line of these:


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