Day 46
(Friday, 1st May 2020)
A pinch and a punch for the first of the month ... a schoolboy challenge I remember from a time when I was ten years old, finding my feet in the new world of boarding school, where I was sent for a host of reasons, which will be found in my autobiography. Anyway, each person you met on that first day of the month had to be the object of your pinch and punch before they pinched and punched you. If they beat you to it, you couldn't return the 'compliment'. There was also the walking downstairs backwards and ‘white rabbits’. Some of you will remember these rituals. For some of you, it will remain a mystery!
In the mean time, out there in the big, bad World, the statistics continue to mount up. As of this morning, the number of reported cases worldwide has reached 3.25 million, the number of deaths 233,570, but on the bright side, the number, who have officially recovered has topped one million, the figure reported is 1,014,524. The UK’s number of infections has risen to 177,454 whilst the death toll is 27,510, which is nearly 12% of the World’s death toll! Per capita, surely this must be THE worst case fatality rate in the World..! Yet the PM is back at the daily briefing podium telling us that we have avoided the tragedy that other countries have suffered! Once again he is back to his treacherous best form. Once again we have the old guard back at the spinning wheel..! I wonder how long it will be before we see the Grease-Hogg back at his own spinning wheel..! God help us..!!!
Our morning Tai Chi session took over 45 mins today, as we forge on through the form. Each step needs a little finessing and reiteration to be sure we are getting the balance of movement of hands, feet, the whole body well enough to feel confident that we are doing it right. There seems no limit to the process of discovering how amazing the human body can be; how clever were those inventors of the martial arts at discovering how to use it to maximum effect.
Our morning Tai Chi session took over 45 mins today, as we forge on through the form. Each step needs a little finessing and reiteration to be sure we are getting the balance of movement of hands, feet, the whole body well enough to feel confident that we are doing it right. There seems no limit to the process of discovering how amazing the human body can be; how clever were those inventors of the martial arts at discovering how to use it to maximum effect.
Meanwhile, we have the cheerful clarity of Clemency Burton-Hill's choice of music for today, which is: Children's Corner, L119 1: 'Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum' by Claude Debussy. The whole suite of six pieces that constituted Debussy's 'Children's Corner' was intended to be evocative of scenes from childhood. He wrote it for his three year old daughter Claude-Emma. The whole suite is well worth listening to. It is evocative of the object of its attentions, in each case, was one of Claude-Emma's toys, like a stuffed elephant called Jimbo, a Serenade for a doll, a little shepherd and so on).
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