Lockdown Diary - Thursday 10th June 2021
It's Thursday already and I feel like I'm in permanent catch-up mode. Work dominates after the usual early morning walk. As this week is carers week, work is putting on a few events, one of which is this afternoon's talk on resilience. It was interesting and useful to meet other colleagues who are carers, but I'm not quite in place where I can build resilience, yet. Probably the reverse. More work Tonight's Idler drinks chat is with author/philosopher Julian Baggini who'll be talking about 18th century philosopher David Hume. Another enjoyable conversation with Julian being a very fluent conversationalist and clearly an enthusiast for David Hume. He chose Kate Bush's 'The Sensual World' as he has outro song, which was I stuck around for the post-drinks chat with other Idlers, which was fun as always. After that dinner and TV: we're starting a new series tonight and son #1 (for it was his choice) chose 'Spooks' series 1, which I have see...