Lockdown 3 cabin fever

 Morning Mugs,

Anyone else feeling a little claustrophobic? Anyone else feeling they know the town or village or locale rather too well now and finding it..restrictive?

Since last February when we visited Paris on a city break I've gone to Newbury for a flying visit to collect a new work laptop just two days prior to lockdown 1, been to Costco in Southampton three times, been to Chessington once, Bealieu once and Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm once. Oh and an aborted break in Brecon after two days.....I feel, like many, my wings have been clipped. And it's starting to wear....

We booked a weekend in Paris at Easter thinking the worst would be over, but that now looks doomed. Our cancelled cruise from last year was rebooked for May this year......this is looking less and less likely as well. I may get a chance to go to the money pit later this year in late June/early July...but I'm not betting on reciprocal quarantines being lifted by then either. Will August be Ok for our main holiday? 50/50 at best in my view. My current best hope is a first visit to New York in December this year. By that time I fully expect to look something akin to Phil Spector in his last public picture. 

On that note, not one bit of me is sorry for Spector popping his clogs in jail. he was a bully, a mysogynist and a murderer. Good riddance. But....he did produce some of the most iconic and memorable music the world has ever heard. This isn't some congnitive dissonance issue i am suffering either, I just sincerely believe that you it's important not to conflate the art with the artist's life. Many 'artists' lead very dark lives, Michael Jackson being a prime example, but go back far enough and the painter Carravagio was also am murderer. And yet we happily listen to Jackson's stuff, pay to see a Caravaggio or happily listen to Spector's highly polished 'wall of sound' music on radio.Liking this stuff doesn't in anyway endorse the behaviour or actions of them, but art in all its forms comes from somehwere, and sometimes where it comes from is dark, tormented or just insane. 

Later Mugs, GJ