0 Skype or zoom calls made
0 cinema visits
1 Covid-19 antibody test taken for the Imperial College research study. (None found)
1 failed attempt to
‘eat out to help out’
1 theatre visit (Count Arthur Strong - ‘is there anybody out there?’ Grand Theatre, Blackpool. Outrageously hilarious, from vicious attacks on Brian Cox to bizarre popstar impersonations)
1 live exhibition
visit (The Forgotten Showman, The National Media Museum, Bradford)
1 virtual
exhibition attendance by PJ as a participating artist (the Asemic Art Expo, Venice)
1.5 metres between town markings that say ‘2 metres’
2 lockdowns
2 birthday trips
2 restaurant
dinners (Sapori Restaurant, Blackpool; L’Auberge Brasserie, Southport. Both excellent)
3 café lunches
3 tiers of a clown in Number 10
5 journeys out of town on public transport
6 lockdown dinner inventions (top picks: lentil & bulgur wheat gratin; Med veg gratin, shashlik-style kebabs)
7 traditional local
events cancelled
9 national
publications regularly including photos of closed or derelict buildings taken
by PJ
£10 spent on a
post-lockdown shopping splurge
14 breads and cakes
baked (top picks: my hand-finished chocolate cake; PJ's cakey bread)
18 lockdown walks
20 places to buy
take-away coffee, pizza and grilled cheese
21
books read (top picks: The Phoenix of Florence, Philip Kazan; This Thing of
Darkness, Harry Thompson)
33 non-terrestrial TV series watched (top picks: Brassic; Britannia; Medici the Magnificent)
39 parts to Corvus
Diaries written (and counting)
51 haigas written
104 bottles of wine
drunk
185 films watched
(top picks: 1917; 5 Greedy Bankers; A Personal History of David Copperfield)
300 day-trippers
cluttering up the town at weekends
12,000 photos taken
15,276
questions answered by PJ as a ‘Shutterstock Expert’
16,141
words in my far-from completed novel!
