David Kirtley's blog

Summer’s Up! We’ve all had a great summer, after a lousy spring when the virus ran riot through the population, and hospitals were sorely pressed to cope with the flood of virus victims. The worst of it perhaps was the way it ran riot through many care homes, when people were not sufficiently isolated from the virus, after the hospitals sent older patients back to or into care homes for their care. But summer was okay. Most of us thought we had...

15/4/20 Why don’t we all just stay at home? Why do we need to work so hard? If we all worked just a little bit less, we might just have a bit more time for other pastimes, hobbies! There would be cultural enrichment. I read somewhere that during a period when ‘the plague’ was visiting London and the theatres were closed William Shakespeare wrote three of his best plays ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘King Lear’ in 1605/06. He stayed away...