W/C 27th July 2020

I am not sure if re-locking is a thing, but if it is then this was the week when it started to happen.

As with a lot of things over the last few months the decision to re-lock loosely made sense, but brought with it more questions than answers...but I’ll get onto that.

Oh, and listen out for my new favourite thing - the entire bibliography of ‘the book of dreams’

Stay safe,

Ant

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W/C 20th July 2020

An outdoor retail outlet.

A one-way pedestrian system to help maintain social distancing.

Clear signage and arrow-style markers on the floor.

I mean, how hard can it actually be...

Stay safe.

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W/C 13th July 2020

It's been one of those kind of weeks.

It's not that I disagree with the whole face mask thing, quite the opposite, but yet again it was another change to daily life that was muddled in both it's delivery and it's timing.

The middle of the week was a bit tough, as you will hear, but it got better toward the end - in no small part down to a chance hour and thirty five minutes in front of the television.

Stay safe.

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W/C 6th July 2020

Where to start...

Well I guess the whole week was centred around the appointment to get my hair cut. For so many people, this has been the biggest single most anticipated 'return to normality' moment of the last few weeks...and so it proved for me.

And yet it wasn't the moment I remembered most about Wednesday, that belonged to a certain Sheffield United Centre Half who headed in an injury-time winner for the Blades.

Elsewhere my devices have been spying on me, and one of the Supermarkets has had a Doughnut 'faux-pas', but we will get to that in good time.

Take care...

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W/C 29th June 2020

I make little notes through the week as I contemplate the content of the podcast.

It's normally just a word or two, enough to be a prompt, just memory joggers, obvs.

I realised on Wednesday that the first three topics I had settled on, all began with the letter ‘T’. So being both a fan of symmetry, and also just a teeny bit OCD, I had the idea that this week TFM could be brought to you in association with the letter 'T' (very Sesame Street).

Fast forward to the end of the week and it as it transpired I fell at the very next hurdle, but on reflection for all the right reasons.

Take care.

#letthemusicplay

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W/C 22nd June 2020

It turns out that Harry Enfield got it just about spot-on. We officially welcomed Kevin (and/or Perry) into the house this week, though he's been popping in and out for quite a while...if truth be told.

I spent a good deal of time considering what you can do in an hour and fifty minutes, mainly because I had an hour and fifty minutes to consider it.

Oh, and Rachel came through (as I always knew she would) with the most eagerly anticipated message since lockdown began.

Stay safe,

x

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W/C 15th June 2020

Not only is it coming home, but it came home.

And of course, as is its want, it brought with it the heady mix of inspiration and frustration that make it such a unique sport.

And of course, if you are a long-suffering Blade, it was probably the first thing in a long time that felt like normal.

Stay safe.

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W/C 8th June 2020

Once we got used to the changes that CoVid had brought to day-to-day living, and we found our lockdown rhythm quite a few weeks passed as he nation held it's collective breath and quietly waited for updates.

Over the last couple of weeks, the updates have come thick and fast as we try and figure out the best way forward.

This week has been a blur of possibility and instruction, some carrot and some stick, broadly aligned but not quite, absolute whilst subject to change.

I had started to feel comfortable with a life that had slowed a little, but we seem to be heading back to noise and contradiction.

Oh well.

Life After Flash

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W/C 1st June 2020

It's been a difficult week to watch unfold.

At the time of writing we passed the sad milestone of 40,000 deaths related to the CoVid-19 pandemic. And even as we try and regroup, and unlock, it is hard not to dwell on the human cost - more lives lost than during the Blitz.

But then to look elsewhere for some relief, and be faced with the images streaming from the U.S, has just compounded the sense of sadness. It's bad enough that a virus can cause so much disruption and suffering, it should be inexcusable that we should do the same to each other.

Stay Safe.

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W/C 25th May 2020

On the surface it's been a fairly productive but also fairly relaxing week.

I have managed to get ahead of schedule in terms of podcast recording & editing, with some good ol'fashioned sitting in the sunshine sandwiched in between.

But bubbling under the surface I have been raging...

Deserve - Marillion

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