House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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It is a typical Bennett moment, part gentle social comedy part revelation about the self-delusions of the ego.

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Now, much washed as we are told, they scarcely bear looking at: shiny, veinous and as transparent as an anatomical illustration. Less than 50 pages of nothing, there are a handful of snippets which appear to be going somewhere but immediately are snuffed out. The regular scenario for many of Barry’s jokes concerned St Peter at the gates of Heaven, so that when he finally arrived there last month it can have been no surprise. A lyrical afterword describes the journey home to Yorkshire from King's Cross station via fish and chips on Quebec Street, past childhood landmarks of Leeds, through Coniston Cold, over the infant River Aire, and on.Several cabinet ministers from Johnson’s government have privately expressed anger and frustration at Hancock over the “naivety” of his disclosures, despite the fact he had drawn up an NDA with Oakeshott. What in normal circumstances is one of Rupert’s good habits is to pick up any stray scraps of paper to put them in the bin, and this evening on the corner of Regent’s Park Road he retrieves a bit of paper which turns out to be a (previously used) tissue.

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We have agreed that the cast and crew in the Talking Heads remount should do so for a token fee, with any profits to be given to the NHS. It’s busy but quiet, and notable, considering the presence of so many aged patients, for the absence of chuntering. They didn’t produce much of a reaction from the audience either, and on the night the queen was present none at all. I am unexpectedly on the verge of tears for someone who always put a smile on my face in art and life. One has met and indeed entertained many visiting heads of state, some of them unspeakable crooks and their wives noThe band were also influenced by Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 science fiction novel Cat’s Cradle when composing their song “Nice Dream”. Anita Bean, a sports dietician and the author of The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, says that eating an easy-to-digest snack 30-90 mins before a workout can help to improve performance. Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has agreed a highly controversial amnesty deal with a Catalan separatist party. Faultless weather yesterday and today reveals (with crowds on Primrose Hill) how the lockdown is coming apart.

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A Celtic FC ultras group has insisted their stadium ban for “unacceptable behaviour” has been imposed by the club because of the their “unapologetic solidarity with Palestine”.This was a surrender, a shameful signal that players do not care enough either for the shirt or for the manager. I have watched the recordings of the Talking Heads monologues, but because of social distancing I’ve not been able to attend rehearsals or meet the performers or the directors. When will you get it into your head that one can produce a copious, regular and exquisitely turned evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason?