Lockdown Diary - Saturday 31st October 2020
To add a bit of variety to life I'm joined by son #3 on our weekly shopping trip. Increasingly it's starting to seem like shopping is an expedition to a territory filled with hidden dangers and unexpected discoveries again. That sense of risk-taking is heightened by the news that our ersatz-prime minister-cum(mings)-puppet is due to make an announcement later today that will probably proclaim an immediate lock down for up to 4 weeks. Frighteningly, he seems to be the last person to realise it's needed, despite the fact that SAGE have been saying so for weeks and the numbers have clearly indicated something needed to change. Sorry, I had intended to write about the shopping trip, but my mind wandered to the experience, as it is lived today. I have to say I'm heartily sick of Johnson's ineptitude and his cabinet of moronic yes men and women, especially given the damage he is doing to the people and the country. It's hard to believe I'm about to write this, ...