‘Mum, mum. Please calm…’ ‘You don’t understand. I just want to be able to see the grandchildren. I just want to hug them, to hold them, to cuddle them’. ‘Yes, Mum. I realise that but this won’t…’ ‘Is it too much to ask to sit out on the patio, drawing and colouring with them ? Is it too much to want to spoil them with toys and treats ? Like any proud Grandma ?’ ...

Frustratingly, I can’t locate it now but I recently saw a post on Mastodon from someone who had great difficulty creating a new file in his ‘Documents’ folder. This struck me as very amusing but I think the point he was trying to express was that his ‘Documents’ directory is a disorganised, unstructured, cluttered mess of files so he is incredibly reluctant and can barely bring himself to compound the issue further by typing ‘vi linux-notes.txt’ while in the ‘Documents’ directory. ...

Wife: ‘Jane told me yesterday she just found it all quite overwhelming last week and just sat down and had a little cry’. Me: ‘There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ve think we’ve all had wobbly moments. I certainly know I have.’ Wife: ‘Have you ?’ Me: ‘Yeah, it was a couple of weeks ago now. I heard yet another radio interview with a lady who’d lost her Mum, she couldn’t visit her in hospital and now her Dad is left grieving on his own. Just very upsetting. I was in pieces for 10 minutes’. ...

10pm Thursday – congregate in the street to look at a ‘Flour Moon’. This is handy as flour is in short supply. 10am Friday – congregate in the street to watch a fly-past. Didn’t see anything so returned inside. 11am Friday – given special dispensation not to congregate in the street to observe a two minute silence. 3pm Friday – congregate in the street for a toast. Have a chat with the neighbours (again). ...

After detailed analysis by medical professionals, data scientists and epidemiologists, we are delighted to announce that blog traffic to ‘Blog In Isolation’ finally looks to have peaked on Wednesday April 29 with 15 million unique visitors. Yesterday’s number, by comparison, was just 4 million. However, bear in mind this doesn’t include people who with pre-existing health conditions who have experienced pain and discomfort using an RSS Reader. Hopefully, if this promising trend is sustained, the blog can be re-opened up to Facebook and WhatsApp audiences on Sunday 10 May.