There is always North Korea, where not a single case is reported, but I am just a little worried about the reliability of that number and also Pyongyang’s appeal as a holiday destination.
Miscellaneous
A dram of Writers’ Tears and a drop of James Joyce to banish the COVID-19 blues
I was excited to receive a package in my Lockdown Bureau a few days back from Writers’ Tears that appeared to be a book, accompanied by a bar of soap. Were they trying to tell me something?
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Lifestyle
Losing track of time in the Lockdown Bureau
This government constantly urges us to clap for our carers while it carries direct responsibility for killing so many of them.
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Airports
How no flights, corona, inaction became lights, camera, action at Vilnius Airport
What movies would you show at your airport during the COVID-19 crisis?Here’s The Moodie Blog’s suggestions.
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Events
How Chaps Holland learned to never wash alone
Gerry Marsden would be reaching for his Pacemaker if he ever heard the travel retail reworking of his (and originally Rodgers & Hammerstein’s) song that became a famous Liverpool FC anthem.
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Events
Hanging tough in the Self-Isolation Bureau
Another thing is exposed in crisis. Your values. How you treat people. Customers, staff, colleagues. Don’t demand assistance and not give it. Remember, people will remember how you treated them during this crisis.
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Miscellaneous
Breakfast with the birds at Chez Moodie
One family man, an ex-duty free executive, rendered jobless by the shutdown of the hospitality industry, is going to work for Amazon rather than take a government handout, figuring the money is needed more by others. You are the man Steve.
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Events
My Wilson moment in the Moodie Davitt Castaway Bureau
“Sorry, terms & conditions apply.” If you’re told that, remind the party concerned that so will terms and conditions when the good times return. As in who you do business with.
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Miscellaneous
The end of certainty
It was as if each of them was simply trying to come to terms with the change to the human condition as much as they were trying to navigate the immediate future for their businesses.
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Airports
Multi-hyphenating on the bright side of life
My music taste has taken a turn for the darker (a splash of Mahler, lots of Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, even Bob Dylan’s Stuck inside of London with the COVID-19 Blues Again).
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Events
A drop of Cloudy Bay to offset these cloudy days
In terms of Paul McCartney’s opening lines, I got my retaliation in early.
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Events
Because Only a Yes to Sex is a Yes
“The startling reality is that every 73 seconds an American is sexually assaulted – frequently involving the perpetrator’s misuse of alcohol,” says Pernod Ricard North America Chairman and CEO Ann Mukherjee.
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Miscellaneous
As I Walked Out One Midwinter Morning
The daffodil, not the Black Swan, should now become our metaphor.