Chins up!

This is the big one, the event of most of our lifetimes. The corona pandemic can bring out the worst in people, but also it can accentuate qualities that you never really appreciated before.

What a time to be alive! Of course this plague is terrifying, horrible and miserable - but here's some excellent advice from an old soldier friend of mine who had a particularly eventful World War II.
His name was Mike Peyton and he experienced the lot: the annihilation of his entire battalion in the Western desert; a year in an Italian POW camp when many of his comrades died of starvation; the bombing of Dresden; months fighting alongside Soviet troops; lots of killing, lots of death.
So, I asked him, one day, whether on any level, he'd found his adventures enjoyable. He said: "You know when you go skiing in Verbier and you get to the bottom of that black run - Tortin - with the s ...