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Harry’s Diary – Day 26 (Thurs, April 9, 2020)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX programme is launching 42,000 satellites in the coming years. I saw the opening salvo deployed last November. There is nothing - unless you are North Korea - anyone can do to stop it. Planning laws, apparently, do not have a remit for outer space:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 25 (Wed, April 8, 2020)
Covid grief hasn’t touched me yet. I thought of someone particularly vulnerable yesterday and I desperately hoped I’d see them again. It’s getting closer to all of us. Friends of friends have passed on now. Ireland is a small country:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 24 (Tues, April 7, 2020)
PR masterstroke or otherwise, Harry likes the fact that the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has returned part-time to work in the health service. “I am glad we have a doctor in charge,” he writes. He even thinks the Taoiseach’s speechwriters should keep going as they are:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 23 (Mon, April 6, 2020)
I was delighted to have a bit more of the gardening job to do. One day, I mused, I will be digging my own square of land. All in all a great way to start another week in this lockdown of indeterminable length. However long it is to last we are a day nearer its end:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 22 (Sun, April 5, 2020)
I dream of taking the boy to watch Bohemians of all teams and realise we’ve never been to a soccer match. Suddenly I fear Covid could snatch that chance.
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Harry’s Diary – Day 21 (Sat, April 4, 2020)
There’s been a lot of catching up on lockdown. All sorts of new connections are being made and old ones rekindled. Who would have thought that it would be boredom that heralded a revival of human love:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 20 (Fri, April 3, 2020)
Today, Harry needed a break from the internet and information overload. He brought the dog for a walk and was caught in a spring shower. It helped him to unplug. “It grounded me,” he said:
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Harry’s Diary – Day 19 (Thurs, April 2, 2020)
This is a critical juncture in world history and all its citizens are stuck inside, more impotent than ever before.
