Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Well here we are in August already.  Six weeks after the solstice and so apparently we are in the deepest depths of winter We’ve also just past the four month mark in the battle against the great contagion of our time. It is worth re-iterating that.  The battle is still in it’s infancy. It’s only just started. At the beginning we were told it would be two years at least before a return to some sort of normal might happen.  We’re less than a sixth of the way to that point. But the ferocity of the debates and the dominance of Covid in the news has made us all seem as though it has been a lot longer.  That things and time has passed and changed and we can move on.  It’s completely understandable as we’re keen to get out of this slow suffocating hell.  But we do seem to be in an unseemly hurry.  The call to open borders started only 8 weeks after we closed them.  What on earth were people thinking back then? But outside our borders, things have been getting worse and worse and worse.  Victoria is facing a wildfir