Lockdown in London -- Day One
Last night PM Boris Johnson advised everyone over 70 to stay indoors for the next three months, while asking everyone else to "social distance." Today we adopted a rather liberal interpretation of what is required of us. Of course we both took long walks in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, which is well within the spirit of what has been asked. However, what Boris has asked is that we not sit down anywhere in public. This prohibits us from indulging our deeply-ingrained habit of going to a pub for lunch every day. In fact, we haven't eaten lunch together in our house for several years. (When Kathy has a lunch engagement with a friend, I go to a pub by myself. When I have a lunch engagement with a friend, she eats sushi at home.) One of our go-to pubs is the Duke of Clarence, a seven-minute walk from our house, on the Old Brompton Road. Except when there's an important rugby, football or cricket match on TV, there's hardly ever anyone in the Duke at lu...