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Birdsong in a Silenced City: a year since first lockdown
The morning of the first Lockdown on 23rd March 2020 I awake to a strange sound. ‘What is that sound?’ I ask.We live alongside a busy city street and accustomed to the ubiquitous sound of traffic noise. However, this morning, it is as though that noise has turned off like a tap. The sound I hear…
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Get me out of here! Lockdown: new sculpture project
I have made a sculpture maquette called Lockdown. The figure cast in bronze resin stands with hands pressed against the glass, looking out, trapped and alone inside a box. I want it to portray that ‘euuuuhh aaaaagh’ feeling!—the caged, silent scream of angst and claustrophobia that we might all feel when deprived of going out…
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And here we go into lockdown again
I want out—This is hell!I yelland I rant!Well, I can’t!I must play by the rules(with exception of schools)And— Stay home and work if I can,Stick to the plans;Wash hands, Cover face,Make spaceTrack and trace Lesley Scoble | 5th November 2020 The second lockdown It is November the fifth, 2020 and England is embarking on another lockdown for a…
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Colonel Blink aka Dominic Cummings
Eye Test Drive I went to my local Boots the Chemists yesterday to ask for my eye prescription as I need to buy new reading glasses—but the optician section was closed due to the Coronavirus. There was a notice on the entrance to the optician area stating that the nearest open opticians was in Kent…