MIDLIFE WRITER

We're one year on from when this Virus try to stop us and infect the earth Can you believe that it’s been a whole year since our lives changed so dramatically? Monday 23rd March 2020 will be a day we will probably never forget. But we mustn't look back in anger in the present frustrations of our time.   If this earth has grown smaller then its strength has grown stronger through the resilience, faith, hope of its people. It has brought more heroes than it has villains. Awakened the need and the care of our overstretched underpaid great NHS.   We've learnt very suddenly the skill and minefield of home school, much greater respect for those called to teach our young. We have loved and we've lost, distantly virtuality hugged. We've hidden our faces in social distance spaces, and learn the art of technology to keep us connected. Fighting over toilet rolls, emptying our store of its goods. One thing that we can do is and which is for certain is to locally lace our boot

When I say taking control of the control, I'm not referring to the TV remote control... Control has been recently found its way back in. It's about people wanting what they cannot get; therefore, blame steps in to counteract this and distorts fact from fiction and truth, love and honesty. The here and now, getting what we feel we deserve and blinded by consequences around us. In the end, people are just protesting against anything and everything just for the sake of it. Our Nation has had 12 months of pent up frustration; now we're starting to see that been released dangerously spiralling out of ordered proportion. The world is starting to revolt at a virus that it doesn't care about. Patience has lost its key to our hearts and subconscious minds. Human beings have a deep-seated desire for certainty and control. It helps us believe that we can shape outcomes and events to our liking. ... Control also feels good because it makes us believe that we aren't under someo

So here we are at a puzzled pause; enough time to scribe about the new pandemic winter craze as I wait for a jigsaw puzzle to come knocking at my door. Three have already been done in 3 weeks, whilst the season has been weather changing. And it seems I’m not the only one in this current puzzle frenzied mania. When cartographer John Spilsbury fixed a map to a piece of wood and sawed it up in 1766 into what has become now known as a jigsaw, he could never have imagined that the world would still be looking on their floors for missing pieces more than 250 years later.The creator of the first jigsaw puzzle – Spilsbury termed them dissections, you could walk into almost any family home in modern-day society and find at least one of his inventions on a shelf in a cupboard. During the lockdown, there has been an unexpected upsurge in interest in jigsaws and other puzzles. From inspired depictions of “cosy” sheds to currently off-limits country pubs and taxing single colour images, We have