Strange times at Castle Douglas, when my darling wife proposed that we begin an “open relationship” ... PAUSE FOR BREATH ... when we play Online Monopoly on our iPads. We play Monopoly with each other but then I discovered you could play online with strangers. How exciting is that? But is it disloyal? No longer it would seem.
Playing online games does help to take our minds off the disaster that is unfolding in the UK with the Black Lives Matter. Weak and ineffectual policing, lack of dynamic political leadership, and people who have been locked away for weeks and weeks ... a recipe for rioting (and no doubt looting in due course) and public disorder. The focus on statues and their links to slavery is absurd. Unless you live in the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984, history cannot be changed.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Those rioting probably do not realise that, due to the campaigning of William Wilberforce, slavery was banned across the British Empire. Enforcement took twenty-five years and was achieved with a loss of the lives of 17,000 British sailors.
Cyprus again is gradually easing their lockdown and it appears to all intents and purposes that complacency has set in. Social distancing seems to be completely ignored, masks and gloves are no longer evident, and it is as if the virus has never existed. Tourist flights are slowly beginning again and the hospitality industry is hoping and praying to rescue something from this holiday season. Whether, as I suspect, this will lead to an explosion of the virus - only time will tell. But if it does, then the last three months will have been for nothing.
All we can do is cross our fingers.
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