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Coronavirus: Today’s burning questions

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As we celebrate our one month stay-in-iversary, I have more and more questions and fewer and fewer answers. Where are you supposed to put all the rubbish? Are deserted city centres, in fact, full of people wandering around taking pictures of empty streets? Why do some people find the concept of social distancing so difficult […]

Coronavirus: What I have in common with an oyster

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Any noise annoys an oyster and a noisy noise annoys an oyster most. The stress of this coronavirus business is getting to us all, apparently. Around the world, those of us not on the front line of this battle are left stumbling around at home not quite knowing what to do with ourselves. Our amygdala […]

Curtain up on getting your theatre tickets…

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I love a night at the theatre – the whole experience, from overture to curtain call via over-priced ice cream.   I go as often as I can to see as many different shows as I can – last week I was, in equal measure, baffled and beguiled by Scottish Opera’s production of Nixon in […]

On time: a post that gets dark quite quickly

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I feel such a sense of loss when I think of the great, unwritten poems that took a backseat to polished floors – Brigid Schulte There’s an essay doing the rounds, it’s called A Woman’s Greatest Enemy? A Lack Of Time For Herself and it’s by Brigid Schulte. It took me days to find the […]