'Everything is really bad ... and this is the most perfect time'

Confession: I’ve had writer’s block this morning. I woke up really early to get started on the newsletter as usual and I already had a big plan for what I was going to write. In fact, I’ve been writing it in my head all week but then yesterday (well Friday evening to be exact), the news hit that England was going back into another national lockdown. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland also have their own sets of restrictions in place and over on the continent, France and Germany are returning to lockdown. In the US, the numbers are still rising at a terrifying rate and over in Australia, Melbourne has just come out of a 15-week lockdown, which is great but as we know, that doesn’t mean this thing is in any way over.

The news is bleak. There is no other word for it. And when something so big is happening, it’s hard for me to ignore and write about something completely different and it’s also hard for me to formulate my thoughts quick enough for this page. But I’m going to shelve my fr…