Lockdown Diary, day 20

 For as long as I can remember, up to this year, I have always been at church for Easter Sunday.

Today there are no churches open and the only services available have been online, or on the TV or radio.

Having read a bible passage about the crucifixion on Good Friday, my wife and I read together a passage from John's Gospel describing the resurrection today.

And we listened together to the first movement of the Vivaldi Gloria which I posted earlier as today's Easter Sunday Music Spot, a virtual performance by 243 musicians from their homes around the world. She said that listening to that, to how people have risen to the challenge of producing such performances when unable to meet in person, made her feel proud to be a human being.

Lots of both uplifting and terrible news today - terrible news that the number of deaths in the UK of people who tested positive for COVID-19 has passed ten thousand, and the stories of some of those who died: uplifting stories of how other people have continued to work for their communities, sometimes risking their lives to do so, and that so many people are true heroes.

Comments policy update: 

No change on signed posts. Even if I strongly disagree with a post, as long as it is not libellous, racist or otherwise highly offensive, does not contain foul language and does not accuse me or anyone else of lying I will usually leave up posts by people who have put their name to them.

I have however had enough for the moment of silly posts from anonymous trolls.

If you don't think enough of your views that you are willing to put your name to them, then I am under no obligation to provide a platform for them. Unsigned posts which I think are daft will be deleted.

In conclusion:

Keep well.

Stay home: protect the NHS; save lives.




Comments

Anonymous said…
Where do you stand on accusations of hypocricy? Asking for a friend.
11:59 am
Chris Whiteside said…
You can advise your "friend" that I'm not going to pay too much attention to them from someone who can't even take the trouble to spell the word correctly.
7:56 pm
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