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John seems to be doing ok. He’s in the infectious disease ward. Hes a bit upset as he doesn’t have any headphones so he can’t listen to the TV. Hopefully thats a good sign. Not much else to report today…. Read more28th March 2020

John, marys stepfather, has tested positive. He was admitted last night with breathing problems and is in intensive care. We hope he will pull through. Also positive today are PM Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the chief medical… Read more27th March 2020

After the shock of BJ’s announcement, the last couple of days have been filled with confusion. Too many employers have classified themselves as “critical”, anything from car parts retailers to shoe shops, in an attempt to essentially profit from the… Read more26th March 2020

Its been a trying weekend. Mary’s cough got worse again on Friday night/Saturday morning, and on Saturday afternoon i had to call 999. They were great, got to us in about 20 mins but didn’t do that much. They said… Read more23rd March 2020

On the 16th, the penny finally dropped with the Govt. Boris Johnson gave a press conference looking grey. We later learned he’d been told quite bluntly that their current strategy would result in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths in the UK,… Read more20th March 2020

By monday things had got crazy. It was clear to all but the govt that containment wasn’t working. Then it began to emerge that Dominic Cummings, special advisor to the PM, had said it’d be simpler to let everyone get… Read more14th March 2020

By now things were starting to get worrying. Nonetheless life went on. On 28th Feb we’d had our Village Revue which was great fun but in retrospect may have been a grave error. There were 100 people crammed into the… Read more7th March

I’m writing this retrospectively till mid March as i failed to keep a record earlier. By early Feb we were beginning to get an inkling, but still i personally thought it would be a bit like flu and not really… Read moreFebruary 2020

I’m writing this retrospectively till 23rd March, based on what i remember. So in early Jan we started hearing stories about an epidemic of some new SARS-type disease in China. Early reports were confused, it affected only one city, China… Read moreJanuary 2020