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I wasn't sure what to post, but then I saw this...

(2/?) pic.twitter.com/qZhdHsW6Lr

— Washington Post TikTok Guy 🕺🏼 (@davejorgenson) March 11, 2020

Wow, it's been a year since I started doing these!*



When DID Lockdown start in the UK? Oddly, that's not an easy question to answer. I found this article: When did lockdown begin in the UK?, and the answer is both the 16th and the 23rd of March. The 16th is when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease. (My 15 year old: 'Matt Hancock is just a meme!') But the 23rd was when Boris told the country that 'You MUST stay at home' and closed businesses and so on.

It's interesting to think back to a year ago... We knew we had to self-isolate for 14 days, but figured life might carry on more or less as normal around us, and I thought I'd get the time off work (HA!). We still don't know if Darcy & the Eldest actually had covid or not, since tests were impossible to get hold of back then.

And now, working from home is the norm (and I was lucky that this was possible) and we have home testing kits sitting on a shelf inside the front door. Half the family have had their 1st shot (as in Darcy's family - those who are elderly or working for the NHS, ditto my parents) and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not just metaphorically - quite literally too, what with the increase in daylight and the lovely sunshine we've been having the past few days.

Anyway I have saved up loads of stuff, so will put all the rest under the cut. :)

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*I went back & checked because I was only up to 364, and turns out I have two Day 106. Ah well. I don't THINK I have the energy to update them all.

Russell T Davies: ‘I looked away for years. Finally, I have put Aids at the centre of a drama’

I saw an advert for this drama ('It's a Sin') just the other day and thought it looked interesting. I am even more interested now.

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The 'Aids quilt' that showed the scale of suffering

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Pensioners choir dedicates moving rendition of Silent Night to trans kids and calls on elders to educate themselves

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And that's all folks!

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ETA: OMG completely forgot. Via desdemonaspace, two posts of 'Bored Quarantined People Have Started Building A**hole Forts For Their Cats':

Post One

Post Two

First up, this interesting article:

This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It's worked for over 30 years

Below cut, just a few images/memes (long day, am tired).

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ETA: the_redjay - aka luckweaver - is back! They're now schrodingers_time_lady and have a 'Hi I'm back' post here! :D

So, today I ended up writing fic...

While You Were Sleeping
Summary: Crowley wakes up. The months he missed weren't boring. Quite the opposite...

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So there is something for those not interested in Good Omens (or my fic *g*) a couple of (rather wonderful) things:

ABSOLUTE SCENES ON THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL pic.twitter.com/hvu9iWkkIz

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 1, 2020

I didn’t expect that 😭😭 🕷 pic.twitter.com/qdsp5vSUjI

— Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) June 30, 2020

And finally. 'The Dusk Hour' by contemporary Russian photographer Natalia Drepina (x)

So, I might have spent all day working on the next chapter of the fic... So, since it's late, you get a few random Nice Things. <3

i present to you: @michaelsheen as flowers from his garden (as shown on the lovely anna's story) pic.twitter.com/5cHRvRoGQs

— mel ♡s msheen (@azirafale) May 23, 2020

karen gillan as scottish beverages, a thread; pic.twitter.com/szmx3HgZGO

— karen gillan holding things (@karen_holding) June 26, 2020

In Transit: Neil Gaiman Reads His Touching Tribute to the Lonely Genius Arthur Eddington, Who Confirmed Einstein’s Relativity

The Afro-Colombian village which celebrates Christmas in February

And finally, art! The delicate art of painting on feathers, by artist Jamie Homeister (x):

(As if I was going to pass up THAT number! Changed the subject line though, since we haven't been a House of Plague for months.)

Not a fan of Mr Starmer, but still can't fathom that this incompetent, lying, bigoted ball of dough is actually the Prime Minister.

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So, have some petitions!

Publish the Russia report

Offer more support to the arts (particularly Theatres and Music) amidst COVID-19

(Context - and this is just one example: The entire artistic team at the Theatre Royal Plymouth are being made redundant in 3 days.)

Suspend future sales of tear gas and other crowd control equipment to the USA

Food standards petition

And if you were wondering if petitions are worth it:

How Digital Petitions Make Real World Change
Think clicktivism never changed anything? Think again. We dive into the ways one of the biggest petition sites on the internet, Change.org, is giving democracy a shot in the arm

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In case people were curious about the easing of lockdown in England:


(x)

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To stop this being an entirely depressing post (the art aside) I give you three Doctors:



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And finally. Tokyo-based French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux, ‘I am here’ comprises the silhouettes of 18,000 women in different colours (x):

I'm just going to keep editing this post, hope you don't mind.

IT’S DOCTOR WHO'S 56.5th BIRTHDAY! 🎉

Let's have a big online celebration!

5pm #DoctorsAssemble release

6pm Something fab from @bigfinish

7pm An Adventure in Space & Time with @Markgatiss & @sacha_dhawan #London1963

Oh, and we may be hearing from @bradders_david too... ✨ pic.twitter.com/WRwm8p4VN1

— Emily Cook (@Emily_Rosina) May 23, 2020

This is the actual thing, not a trailer:



ETA: OK, it is DELIGHTFUL! Full marks, will listen again! :D If you ever wondered what would happen if ALL the Doctors got together... This is the answer. So much love. ♥ ♥ ♥