The small hamlets and villages that surrounded my childhood are dotted with Covid virus cases and death. Old names – Ash Vale, Frimley, Bagshot, Camberley, Farnham, Elstead, Tongham, and Guildford, all a part of my childhood – are now saddened with a startled grief.

The small hamlets and villages that surrounded my childhood are dotted with Covid virus cases and death. Old names – Ash Vale, Frimley, Bagshot, Camberley, Farnham, Elstead, Tongham, and Guildford, all a part of my childhood – are now saddened with a startled grief.

This was aired on KWMR.org Wednesday morning Pacific time. And then there was Wednesday Morning East Coast time – and you know the rest. With Love from London.

This was aired on KWMR.org Wednesday morning Pacific time. And then there was Wednesday Morning East Coast time – and you know the rest. With Love from London.

And the fishermen and women? Ah well, they have been pushed down river, and out with the tide, a knotty problem to be revisited in 5 more years. The draft agreement stating that: “Sovereign rights being asserted on both sides for both the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing the living resources in their water,” sounds like a load of old herring to me.

And the fishermen and women? Ah well, they have been pushed down river, and out with the tide, a knotty problem to be revisited in 5 more years. The draft agreement stating that: “Sovereign rights being asserted on both sides for both the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing the living resources in their water,” sounds like a load of old herring to me.

Between Brexit and the new mutant strain of COVID-19, the rest of Europe is firmly closing its doors on trade and travel with England. Albeit ‘closing the barn door after the horse has bolted’.

Between Brexit and the new mutant strain of COVID-19, the rest of Europe is firmly closing its doors on trade and travel with England. Albeit ‘closing the barn door after the horse has bolted’.

“Russia. I am from Russia, then I spend several years in Switzerland but they let me come back here and I am (she repeats) so grateful.” She is smiling all the time, and rocking from side to side and I wonder at her story. So many Eastern European women came to Great Britain, and America, looking for a refuge, a better life an escape from what? I wondered. They were all working women in one way or another.

“Russia. I am from Russia, then I spend several years in Switzerland but they let me come back here and I am (she repeats) so grateful.” She is smiling all the time, and rocking from side to side and I wonder at her story. So many Eastern European women came to Great Britain, and America, looking for a refuge, a better life an escape from what? I wondered. They were all working women in one way or another.