…powered by empathy & Schadenfreude
On Wednesday I asked on our primary school’s school/PTA Facebook page if there was a plan to have video lessons now there’s no realistic prospect of a return to school before September. Instead of publicly engaging they replied via a Continue reading Primary schooling?
There’s an important distinction to be made between slavery and racism. Throughout recorded history nations have both subjugated other nations and used slaves to work in fields, manufacturing enterprises, homes and to build major infrastructure projects like monuments, walls… Perhaps Continue reading Slavery
There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply Oh just remember I don’t decide I got no reason it’s all too much You’ll always find us out to lunch – The Sex Pistols, July 1977 Yesterday I responded to Continue reading Pretty vacant
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those Continue reading Progress
I (perhaps we as a family) needed a distraction from the frustrations of politics and from the mental anguish of coping with the restrictions imposed/self-imposed during the current coronavirus pandemic, so I ordered the Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit game. An Continue reading Distraction (almost zero politics)
Here are 2 comments of mine in the village Facebook page, responding first to the dilution of the government’s lockdown message, and then (indirectly for obvious reasons) to a couple of arseholes stating that care homes and the old should Continue reading Morally bankrupt
4 weeks in… Nobody I’ve spoken to so far quite understands the concept of being paid to work from home and that the responsibilities continue despite being physically displaced. I’ve not been furloughed, nor am I on holiday, The responses Continue reading Working from home… not all fun and games
“…[COVID-19] tests carried out across the UK, excluding Northern Ireland. – Priti Patel, UK Home Secretary [a Conservative politician].” Link. Another article: ‘Speaking at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Priti Patel [a Conservative] was asked twice if she would Continue reading three hundred thousand thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand…
I bought some noise-cancelling headphones to be prepared well in advance of working from home, or so I thought. Delivered the weekend before the UK government advised non-essential workers to work from home if at all possible. Luckily I can Continue reading Headphones
Warning: sweary stuff later. I’ve been working from home. Until today I was doing pretty well at it too, motivation high, reasonably productive despite the relative isolation, but I hit a productivity brick wall today. No matter, I’ll have a Continue reading Coronavirus – week 1