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Welcome to the third blog of The Olivia Rose Diaries. It is the 3rd April 2020, we are now just over two weeks into lockdown and life has become weirdly frantic. The entire world may have closed down in a physical sense, but our on-line lives are not bound by any such restrictions. As oneContinue reading “Remembering life before Coronavirus”

Blog 2 March 29th 2020 The Olivia Rose Diaries Welcome to the second blog in The Olivia Rose Diaries for the week ending March 29th 2020. Making sense of the numbers. Statistics have only ever told a partial truth but I have decided to keep a set of the Coronavirus figures for the UK, FranceContinue reading “Living under lockdown”

Welcome to the inaugural blog of The Olivia Rose Diaries. Olivia Rose is the name of our boat, a 40 foot long Dutch motor cruiser, and the crew are myself, Mary-Jane Houlton, my husband Michael and our dog Maddie. I don’t spend much time on social media and never intended to write this blog, butContinue reading “Life turned upside down”