Locked down with my Ukulele 31

These are strange times and it’s been a hard year. It’s surprising to me that today we put the clocks back and I don’t really remember putting them forward.

Here we are and this thing is still with us. We are still in fear of this invisible monster. I’ve used the “APP” and am in the medium risk range. We’ve had a nervous couple of days waiting for the results of a family members test results. It’s a relief that its negative but the beast still stalks the world.

I’ve never been an overly “touchy feely” kind of person. When friends say they miss the physical contact of others I’ve thought I don’t mind a bit of distance. But, there are times when I really could use a hug or wanted to give someone else a hug. I feel for people that are more comfortable with the physical contact with others.

It’s struck me that meeting new people is going to be different. In my professional life I used to shake hands. That’s a no no! I went to someone’s house yesterday to help with a problem. Remaining a metre distance at all times seemed very prohibitive. We did it a few weeks ago in a family home. It did feel weird.

I’m not sure I fully understand where the Covid virus was born but I understand it was from human consumption of bats. I was reading about the laws given to the nation of Israel in the bible. Prohibitions on animals that could not be eaten and those that could are stated there. Given the current circumstances it would appear logical that there are combinations of food that should not be eaten. Even though they might taste like chicken. Although I have assumed that bats taste like liquorice & squirrels taste of nuts.

Saltwater. Julian Lennon 1991

We are a rock revolving Around a golden sun We are a billion children rolled into one So when I hear about the hole in the sky Saltwater wells in my eyes

We climb the highest mountain We'll make the desert bloom We're so ingenious we can walk the moon But when I hear of how the forest have died Saltwater wells in my eyes

I loved this tune when I first heard it. I did what I always do when I find a new tune. I play it exclusively end to end for weeks. I found myself singing it in the shower from nowhere the other morning. I was incredibly surprised to find that it was released in 1991. For nearly thirty years the same message is being delivered by the great and the knowledgeable.

Julian has had a musical and artistic career. Thinking about it. It can’t be an easy childhood when your father is as famous as John Lennon was, and to a similar extent still is. Given this song his musical talents and ecological ideals have been inherited.

We want the world to be safe and a paradise. We don’t want the worlds animals becoming extinct. We don’t want babies crying because they are hungry. Mankind has had these problems for centuries. The more intelligent we get the worse we make things. World pandemic, world wars, global warming! The answer to it all must be divine.

Stay safe