{"id":8633,"date":"2020-09-15T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2020-09-15T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T19:50:31","slug":"corona-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/corona-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are we about to go into coronavirus lockdown again?\u00a0 It sometimes feels that we might, but I hope not – the hundred plus lost days from late March to early July now seem like a bad dream.\u00a0 Most of my dreams, good and bad, are forgotten as I wake, but I recorded this one in my diary.\u00a0 Why did I keep a diary, why prolong the misery?\u00a0 Well, I\u2019ve always kept one to make up for my selective memory.\u00a0 Then, it was a unique experience (thus far!), so it felt worth making a personal record of how I experienced it. \u00a0Writing a diary, however brief it may be on some days, helped to pass the time – it became a way of structuring otherwise unstructured time.\u00a0 As the weeks began to blur into each other it was helpful to have a reminder of what I had been doing, my preoccupations – it is the diary as aide-memoire.<\/em> Finally, a record of both the trivial and significant events can help to put things into perspective retrospectively, and it has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I put a photograph, or other image, on my blog each day, 103 in total, in parallel with writing the diary.\u00a0 The photographs were taken during lockdown, though not always on the day they were posted. \u00a0Most of the pictures are, snaps, aides-memoire<\/em>, like the diary \u2013 even leaving aside the lockdown restrictions on movement, I don\u2019t have the talent to make one good picture every day.\u00a0 There are perhaps a dozen that I\u2019m satisfied with, things a little out of the ordinary that have made the discipline of finding a daily picture worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve now put words and pictures together in my Corona Diary<\/em>. It is an honest record as I see it.\u00a0 Others will have seen things differently.\u00a0 Should anyone read it, they may conclude from it what they will.\u00a0 I draw no conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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