According to Chris Whitty, speaking at Wednesday’s Downing Street briefing about the Omicron variant, “There are lots of things we don’t know, but all the things we do know are bad”. I’m more inclined to accept Professors Whitty’s version of events than anything a baffled and beleagured Boris might say. If a lockdown comes, say the experts, it will be two weeks too late: after Christmas rather than before. But millions of people are already making their own decisions: cancelling parties and social gatherings. Thankfully, some traditions won’t change. There will still be racist banter in the public bar of the Black Swan; the village will enjoy a “white Christmas”, whatever the weather.
Licenced today: a road sign pointing to Wrynose Pass (which, along with Hardknott, is the only mountain pass in the Lake District I have never tackled in the Romahome)…
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