Diary 256

Sunday, November 29th

So the US has hit the impressive score of 4 million cases of Covid in the last month. A step towards herd immunity, perhaps?  Meanwhile Scotland is looking as if it will secede from the United Kingdom – according to The Guardian.

On my walk today I couldn’t help noticing that when all the leaves blow away we see the structure of things, and the deserted birds’ nests. Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang. Sometimes it’s only when the camouflage has gone that we see the true state of things.