3rd April 2020 Living in lockdown hasn’t, so far, been too dissimilar to what Sue and I would normally do at home. Retirement may offer the opportunity and time to travel, but it also prepares you for extended periods of being together. Yes, the clubs and social activities that were once part of our lives… Continue Reading
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30th March 2020 A bitterly cold day. Sue took a short walk to the postbox to send an Easter card, while I chose a cycling route I hadn’t been able to follow for quite a few months. The fields and rural pathways had finally dried out enough to take a tyre without slipping or clogging… Continue Reading
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28th March 2020 The death toll in the UK has reached a frightening 1,019. However, to put it into perspective, over the past 24 hours, another 832 people have died in Spain. NHS England’s medical director, Professor Stephen Powis, has said that if the UK manages to keep the death toll below 20,000, “We will… Continue Reading
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26th March 2020 Overnight, there was yet another hard frost. Sadly, 113 more lives were lost and were not here to witness the beautiful day that followed. In total, COVID-19 has claimed 578 British lives. The death toll remains far lower than in Italy, Spain, and no doubt many other nations, but the grief is… Continue Reading
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24th March 2020 After a hard frost overnight, we woke to another sunny day, with the temperature reaching a crazy 19°C by the afternoon. It was our first day under the new rules decreed by the government after Boris Johnson’s address to the nation at 8:30 pm last night. As I drank my morning coffee,… Continue Reading
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23rd March 202 The world seems to have tilted on its axis. The death toll in England rose to 303 today. Today, a seven-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a stranger in a Bolton park. An eight-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of dogs in Dublin. Alex Salmond was cleared of sexual… Continue Reading
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22nd March 2020 It’s only been a few days since I last published a blog, but given the current circumstances, it feels appropriate to record more frequent updates on the events and adjustments the Palmer family is making as we navigate this new and more vulnerable world. On Friday, 20th March, schools shut their doors… Continue Reading
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20th March 2020 Since returning from the Amazon on the 20th of February, the world has become a very different place from the one we knew before boarding the Magellan at the beginning of January. As we were cruising, we had been following, out of idle curiosity, the plight of the unfortunate passengers quarantined on… Continue Reading
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