Posts from May 2020

How good it is to celebrate, to remember, to thank those who made VE Day possible and to mark the passing of 75 years, almost a lifetime, since it happened. To watch, and to sense the joy and relief and expectation that ‘now things would be better’, draws us closer to the lives of the revellers whose faces we see in the old films. The voices of Churchill, and of those who lived through it, still inspire us, reminding us…

This last week has been a struggle. It has been little different from the weeks before it, but this week I have felt confined, disappointed that I could not see friends and family face-to-face and have missed my freedom to go to different places. I have not even been out of the house this week. Before this time of lockdown I did not appreciate how freeing it is to write and to read the thoughts of others. Our words can…