Mother Nature...

During lockdown, phone-in programmes are taking over the radio airways. A guy rang in yesterday to say that coronavirus was Mother Nature’s way of teaching us a lesson for our arrogance. We obviously find it easy to imagine being ruled by a celestial dictator - who judges our behaviour, then dishes out rewards and punishments - whether we choose to call it ‘Mother Nature’ or ‘God’…

Licensed today: colourful houses in the Cumbrian village of Caldbeck...