Two years ago to the day, I started a new blog, SilvertTiger at home and abroad, having previously closed my “old” blog, SilverTiger, which I have subsequently restarted and continued. I have explained my reasons for doing this elsewhere (see my post A change of focus) and do not need to repeat that here. This post is a sort of “Happy Anniversary” card, both to myself and to those who follow my blogs, togerther with a look back over the road travelled during that time.

When I started SilverTiger at home and abroad, we were still living in the “old world”, that is, the pre-Covid world. We could not have known then that we were about to face a worldwide pandemic and that the words “Coronavirus” and “Covid-19” would become daily lingustic currency. The history of those events has yet to be writtn but each of us has a unique story to tell, especially those who have lost friends and loved ones to the disease. I have little doubt that the pandemic will prove to be one of those events, like each of the two world wars, that set the world on a new course. Even when life returns to “normal”, it will be a new form of life, born of Covid-19.

To those of you who follow my blogs, whether regularly or intermittently, I am grateful, and hope to carry you with me into the future, whatever it holds. If my wishes count for anything, then I wish all of you the best of good fortune in facing this, our own Brave New World.