**** in the time of Covid ***

I don’t know why, but I feel like the Armada has been sighted, perhaps this is a metaphor describing our notion of old England……(without Johnson)

I miss a few lines at the start……

The Armada

(Lord Macaulay 1800-1859 was Rector of Glasgow University; Alma mater)

TRISTESSE at the time of Covid

My first real girlfriend {of the late fifties} has died 2020- (cancer) this news affected me profoundly; she died alone, without any family near, (like many these days) : but not unmourned.…