Verbal High Fives

Hey everybody. Dare I say ‘Happy’ New Year? We have survived the first 17 days of 2021 and completed the 14th Level of Jumanji - so verbal high fives to all of you because it hasn’t exactly been uneventful. My master plan for starting this year was to ease into 2021 real slow without making direct eye contact with it in the hopes that it wouldn’t attack... but Lockdown 3.0, widespread flooding in England and two new highly transmissible strains of Covid later, clearly that approach backfired. Meanwhile in America, Donald Trump is having a crack at dismantling democracy because things didn’t go his way at the polls so he began messing around with an item that could potentially destroy Capitol Hill, namely; Spotify (which he has since been banned from using). In December Trump began repeatedly bleating fake news via his social media channels which resulted in a PR media nightmare that no one could possibly have anticipated (unless, of course, that person had a higher level of political a...

I visited Stonehenge for my birthday because nothing makes you feel more alive than looking at some immense, ancient mossy rocks that are arranged in a mind-blowing fashion, right? Seeing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has been on my bucket list for ages so I figured, what with Covid seriously cramping our social lives at the moment, going to Stonehenge would be a fun Covid-approved experience that we could enjoy on my birthday - and by that I mean a safe outdoor-type activity in which my husband and I could spend vast quantities of time totally ignoring Stonehenge because we were worrying about whether or not we were controlling the virus by standing 2 meters apart from all the people surrounding us.   As soon as we parked the car and walked into the bustling Visitor’s Centre, my immediate thought was not, “Wow, let me get my camera to take a photo right now” – it was “Wow, let me get 10 more face masks and some gloves to wear right now” because it was heaving with people an...

Congratulations men, women and children; you have made it to May in The Worst-Case-Scenario Olympics that has been the year 2020! That means you have survived bush fires; multiple floods; the worldwide spread of the Covid-19 Pandemic; the implementation of Lockdown and being forced to spend a sanity-threatening amount of time cooped up at home with your loved ones, and Murder Hornets. And so I’m wondering - as I’m sure you are - what fresh dread awaits us next month in June (also known as the 6th level of Jumanji)?? Maybe it will come in the form of an asteroid, the loss of gravity, a new Teletubbies album, or sharknados .  Oh, you think shark-infested tornadoes converging on land to deliver seawater teeming with nature’s deadliest killers ready to dine on mankind sounds a tad far-fetched, huh? Well, you probably also thought that there would never come a time when humble items such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer would become more valuable than money, and then April ro...