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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 8: Exercising with bunniesMy goal for last week was to set up a home gym. And here it is – filmed and edited. With puns and buns and fancy titles and strange weights. Plus new moves including: Disinfectant Lifts, Shelf Isolation and Jumping Over Clem Bun Who Won’t Get Out of The Way.…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 7: Gallows humour
I hope I don’t die. I just bought new glasses. Today I am thankful for chocolate.
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 6: Good sunrise, sad memories and bad ears
I’ve swapped out the bunnies today for a photo of sunrise on the first day of British Summer Time. It’s been a strange day, which is saying something in these strange times. Getting up at 5am (6 if you count the clocks going forward, which no-one does on the first…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 5: Lockdown life
Bunnies, bloggings, blessings… that’s the drill. Three notes for today: Sleeping. I got up at 10am after a long sleep. Medicated and breakfasted the bunnies, watched a Mad Men over toast and tea and then went back to bed from 12-3pm. It’s been hard to mentally relax with coronavirus as…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 4: How lucky we are
A bunny, a blog bit and a blessing, that’s how this goes. Yesterday it was Prince Charles. Today it’s Boris Johnson who has coronavirus, the first world leader to be infected. We knew the UK death toll would start to jump and today it has by 181 people – to…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 3: a brief history of coronavirus in Stirchley, Birmingham
Diaries are for logging the craziness now so you can process it sometime in the future. Bunnies are for soothing frayed nerves. And the ending is always upbeat. I checked back in my proper diary and the first mention of coronavirus was on 3 March 2020, three weeks ago. (I…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 2: I was germ-phobic before coronavirusI’m blogging this because it helps me. And because I want to write a post to the future. Because everything feels like it is changing for everyone and may never be the same again. The diary template is forming – photos of fluffy bunnies, because who needs a pic of a…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 1: first fracas
I want to start blogging this because it helps me. I want to write to the future in a year. Because the world is about to change forever. Today was the first day after strict coronavirus regulations came in for the UK that will enforce people stay at home, barring…
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Continue reading →: Capturing the moon – reflections on Full Moon WalkingHow can you share a walk beyond the walk? What can be the artifact that arises from, for example, our recent full moon walk, which drew 22 people into ‘an expedition to explore our local waterways by full moon’. A poem seems most apt as a way of processing the…
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Continue reading →: Dark Moon Walking night walk – in conversation with myselfNormally I walk alone but on Sunday evening, I led group of eight people on a night walk around the unlit borderlands of Stirchley, Lifford and Bournville in south Birmingham. It was more than a walk. It felt more like a short expedition or an adventure or an exploration into…
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