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Balancing Disease & Cure – It’s Not Just the Virus

1st June 2020 Emile Woolf 2437 Comments

In his latest book (“The Body – a Guide for Occupants”) Bill Bryson highlights the limitations on what money can buy. He points out, for example, that America spends more per capita on healthcare than [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 7

1st June 2020 Rookwood 2459 Comments

I’m confused. While the UK spirals downwards towards financial and commercial Armageddon, escalating mental health issues, domestic violence and societal breakdown, I cannot find any clause in the Coronavirus Act 2020 that gives members of [more…]

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Dancing on graves

27th May 2020 Going Postal 5091 Comments

That virus Well.  There seems so much to question, from why Professor Ferguson was seen as sufficiently credible to shut the country down, to the published stats on numbers of people catching it and the [more…]

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A Passenger’s Tale

25th May 2020 Tom Pudding 4640 Comments

How it all began Not long after our new neighbours Ernie and Maisie Allen moved in next door, my wife and I were invited to join them and a group of their friends for drinks [more…]

Hongkonger, Going Postal
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Hong Kong: Corona Virus, Conspiracy and Control

25th May 2020 Going Postal 7436 Comments

Hong Kong has apparently had a ‘good’ corona virus pandemic. Cases reported at a little over 1000 are, for a densely populated area of 8 million, modest. The four deaths arising from this very small [more…]

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Larry’s Diary Week Forty

24th May 2020 Going Postal 3738 Comments

Monday Yo! Bozzie’s home; He got back early yesterday evening and marched in like his old self, it may be my imagination, but his voice sounds a bit huskier. The bloody Mutt went potty, rushing [more…]

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Gardening In A Pandemic & Adventures in Photography; The Living World

24th May 2020 Colin Cross 3169 Comments

Welcome back to the greenhouse. I touched on it briefly in my last missive from the garden, but one of the problems with having an inordinate amount of time on ones hands is finding something [more…]

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Another stalkers charter

19th May 2020 Rookwood 4439 Comments

They say life imitates art. Personally, while I believe there is a powerful symbiotic relationship between the two, like the chicken and the egg, once the cycle has begun, it is virtually impossible to visualise [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Nine

17th May 2020 Going Postal 2206 Comments

Monday Morning Readers, another bright and sunny morning here in Westminster, so I’ll be on my favourite windowsill later. I can sleep there with an eye open to observe the comings and goings at No [more…]

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