Countries in lockdown.
The 6 Nations postponed until October.
Curfews. Quarantine.
Stadiums empty for matches.
Toilet paper panic buying.
EU Parliament closed for “an unspecified length of time”.
It wasn’t great, but it was manageable.
Awful news. Tragic.
And a real wake up call that we’re really not managing this whole pandemic thing very well at the moment.
Parliamentary suspensions, we could deal with. But no marmalade festival?
I’m done. Finished.
Volume 74.
Thanks, Einstein (who of course, was one of the Four Great Scientists).
I’m not in London, but if I was in London, I would be going to the 6 Music Festival. Not today, obviously – it doesn’t happen for another six weeks, so I very much doubt that they’d let me in to any of the venues just yet.
Previous 6MFs have not quite done it for me, with a few decent acts (and by ‘decent’, I mean bands or artists that I like – I do realise that this is very subjective) and then a lot of fillers (and by ‘fillers’, I mean bands or artists that I don’t really like – I do realise that this is very subjective).
This time around though (for me, I do reali… oh never mind) they’ve really hit the mark. I’ve been doing some rudimentary calculations, and I could happily listen to at least two-thirds of what’s on offer this time around.
But there’s an awful lot of good music there, and although I’m not in London, I am looking forward to listening to some great stuff from the festival.
Don’t forget to follow my Inspired By 6 Spotify playlist.
Great music (like that above). Regularly updated.
Indeed. And what’s possibly more amazing than that is that someone managed to get a FT article out of the fact.
Here: https://www.ft.com/content/8c1d4e0c-2180-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b
Mmmm! Catchy URL!
And how do you get enough data to write a FT article about Post-it notes?
I have spent much of this past year asking people in tech and tech-heavy companies about their Post-it habits.
And it seems that they continue to be popular.
Who knew?
…the Labour leadership think they’ve worked out why they lost the election:
And if they and their supporters continue to feel that way, they’re already well on track to losing the next one too.