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Diary

Social distancing destroys our lives as social beings

13 June 2020

9:00 AM

13 June 2020

9:00 AM

A lockdown diary is an oddly negative thing. At the dinner parties that we aren’t going to, we aren’t discussing all the interesting things that we aren’t doing. This week, I am not heading for the Austrian Alps to walk in some of the finest mountain scenery in Europe and enjoy a week of Schubert, as I like to do in June.

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