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A pause for thought

Amidst the current and justifiable concerns over the plight of Coronavirus safety in care homes for the elderly – and this may not be a popular aspect to mention – there are care homes … and there are private care homes. This not a tilt at those who work in care homes because invariably in my [...]

April 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

A surprising shop

I was dreading my weekly shop at my local supermarket. I don’t like it at the best of times as they have little fresh food outside fruit and veg, the clientele are rather aggressive, they play music loudly and the staff are cliquey. So the notion of queuing for an hour or so filled me with [...]

April 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Everyone I know with a pulse, never mind an ounce of common sense or an ability to think, recognises the pact with the Devil that we all make when it comes to what is proudly referred to by its supporters as “the Fourth Estate” – i.e. the press or media. We’re in the realms of the trade-off [...]

April 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

On addressing tough subjects

A fascinating aspect of the Coronavirus crisis is the light it has directed upon the humanity’s attitudes to mortality and death. This is a tricky subject because it simultaneously touches upon the fact that every living species goes about its daily business from a starting point that death is [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Easter weekend musings

Here’s another of my reports from the fitness front line, hampered as it is slightly by the callus or growth – you’ll have to excuse my lack of medical knowledge – on the ball of my left foot and the Achilles tendon yank/chronic inflammation which has troubled me now for seven months. [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on a sunny day

Maybe it’s because I’ve got too much time on my hands during the lockdown but I’m beginning to get irritated by both aspects of the coverage of the current crisis and some of the ironies about the world that the UK experience has highlighted. Let me give some examples. Arguably, because of [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Lockdown v blitz

Yesterday I had a long call with a lady of 90 years whose son – a close friend – contracted coronavirus. Those who complain of feeling stir crazy should realise that the virus in the virulent form that the my friend and the PM have is most unpleasant and can cause long term lung tissue [...]

April 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Waking and sleeping hours

With the lock-down in full swing and Boris now in intensive care a degree of monotony is descending upon the Ingolby household. You can only undertake your daily routine … collect the newspapers, make breakfast, deal with correspondence and bills, listen to the radio, watch television, go [...]

April 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s going on (as Marvin Gaye used to warble)

These are strange times and, the longer the Coronavirus crisis continues, the more I grow concerned about where the 21st Century world of the internet, smartphones and social media is taking us. Overnight I rose to the accompaniment of a phone-in programme on Radio Five Live as I toured the [...]

April 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

A little bit of honesty wouldn’t go amiss

US President Donald Trump – a special and indeed unique case in the history of Man – aside, yesterday the UK Government stood out yesterday by continuing its ludicrous late afternoon “Number 10 press conferences” seeking to give the impression that from the outset it had been in charge, and [...]

April 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

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