Sunday, January 31 Captain Sir Tom Moore has been hospitalised with Covid-19 following a bout of pneumonia, and the news hit me like a gut punch. Given the great man’s age, 100, and the fact he also has pneumonia, it’s obviously a very serious situation. How cruelly ironic that this national hero is now battling … Read more
Tickled chimp! Adorable moment 11-week-old ape Maisie laughs for the very first time at Maryland Zoo The cute baby chimp was born at the Oklahoma City Zoo on August 28 After her mother Nia rejected motherhood she was moved to Maryland Zoo She plays with baby toys and laughs for the first time as the zookeper tickles … Read more
You can tell life is edging slowly back to normality when people stop dwelling on the possibility of imminent death and start turning their minds once again to the wonderfully trivial obsessions that help to make the world go round. So it is that I’ve been delighted to see so many getting hot under the collar … Read more