Tag: Lockdown

• New Year, and a Life in Captivity

  

  So the New Year is striking off on a down-beat note.   Differences from the celebrations of other years could not be more marked, at least if we obeyed the conventional wisdom and kept our seasonal conviviality strictly to ourselves. The which we did, self and memsahib, bingeing on Netflix and scarcely bothering to note…

  frederick anderson

  January 4, 2021

  Opinion, Social Comment

  Armageddon, Cliff edge, Direction, Distancing, free speech, future, Lockdown, New Year, Noughties, Woke

• When the Customers Don’t Count at All…

  For once, I’m at a loss to know where to begin!   Where DO I begin? Let’s start with this.  A couple of weeks ago I was rushed to hospital after suffering severe blood loss, which eventually needed a transfusion to stabilize.  The treatment was calm, assured, and apparently successful because, buoyed up by all…

  frederick anderson

  November 14, 2020

  Opinion, Social Comment

  Accountability, Business, Citizens, COVID-19, Fake News, False, Livelihood, Liverpool, Lives, Lockdown, Neglect, Pain, PCR Testing, Suidide, Viral Particle Testing

• Tony Sent Me…

  A frigid sun, not bright, lights this scene.  A car park, rarely so busy at this time of day, is crammed with shoppers on errands of desperation, pattering busily to and fro carrying bags stuffed to the gills with toilet rolls, tinned foods, more toilet rolls… Tomorrow is lock-down day (again).  Another month of incarceration…

  frederick anderson

  November 5, 2020

  Uncategorized

  COVID-19, fear, furtive, guilt, Lockdown, meeting, Secret