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Day 78 - Monday 1st June 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak


Lockdown

I am on a lot of mailing lists.  I get many emails every day from the many companies I've booked or bought through.

I have a spurt of unsubscribing every now and then but mostly I want to hear from these people.

At the moment I am receiving a lot of what I can only refer to as "optimistic emails".  Ones from travel companies, restaurants, various galleries and the many theatres (i.e. all of London's) who's lists I'm on.

I appreciate that they want to keep in touch and even encourage me to book something, but I can tell you this for nothing, I aint booking A THING for some time.  


Believe me, I want the theatre industry to recover as much as anyone in the industry or fans of theatre do, but it just feels like a fool’s errand to be booking theatre tickets or holidays when we don't know what's round the corner and the idea of sitting in a building with a group of strangers couldn't be less appealing.

So while I applaud your efforts, I'm staying put for now.

Not Moving GIFs | Tenor

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