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 Four years ago, towards the end of November 2020 , I wrote this  " I always have a note in my diary for today to remind me to order th...

John Sullivan with his Daughter Susan in 2011   Some things are too horrible to contemplate, especially when they touch on your life and aff...

Lord help you if you have a compromised immune system, are elderly or have other health issues. I'm all for going out to gigs and footba...

Today Barnet Council released its l ong-awaited report intothe emergency COVID measures which included cycle lane on the A1000 . This week t...

 Do you remember that big announcement by Rishi Sunak that businesses in the hospitality industry would be getting grants to assist with th...

Regular readers will know that in January, my cousin Theresa, who is six months younger than me and who I grew up with passed away from covi...

 So you are alarmed by the huge rises in covid cases and are wondering why Boris has not taken action? This was the question troubling me un...

Am I alone? I am feeling absolutely terrified for the future.  Maybe I'll feel different tomorrow, or next week. I certainly hope so.  I...

Anxiety. It is a terrible thing. I have been giving a lot of thought to how the fallout of lockdown will affect the children who are at scho...

Matt Hancock has gone and we have a new health secretary. Boris Johnson has been briefing that he wants to draw a line under Hancocks reign ...

 Like most of the country, we've been following the ups and downs of the pandemic, the infection and death counts and vaccination progra...

 Regular readers will know that I listen to Robert Elms on BBC Radio London of a morning. I was doing this, as I do every morning, when my p...

 As regular readers know, I run a music studio. We are currently open only for professional musicians, solo/single household artists and edu...

Pic courtesy    www.toledolibrary.org/blog/mental-health-awareness Why does Great Britain have the worst covid death rate of any major count...

By Dr Julia Hines Yesterday the Government confirmed that by their figures more than 100,000 people have died of Covid. It was a Tuesday, so...

One of the guys who works for me commented to me today that I seem to be the only person he knows who is dealing with lockdown and not crack...

 We are now half way through January. We've been in lockdown for ten days. The weather has been miserable, we are cut of from friends an...

 I know Boris has the worst job in the world at the moment. The last thing in the world I would want right now is to be responsible for the ...

 Now we all know what tier we are in and how we will be spending Christmas. We have to recognise that the government has a nearly impossible...

This may be the blog where I lose ALL of my friends. But the bottom line is that if I can't tell the truth, then I am as nothing. I'...