claytoncast

There's been an awful lot going on for all of us in the last six months, and we still aren’t out of the woods yet as they say. I think the one thing I have still to come to terms with is a sense of loss. Loss of my way of life. We all threw ourselves into lockdown with the blitz spirit. I remember when it was announced that I might have to spend twelve weeks in such a state, I thought it an impossibility. Yet twenty weeks later and my life is still not in any way back to the shape it was, and I’m carrying on. I don’t go out for meetings. As a freelancer my meetings used to take place in other peoples offices and many of them have not reopened those offices. My day would be a journey to the meeting, a meeting, lunch with a mate and then back home for a nap, or dinner with my better half and an evening in front of the box. We have had no shortage of the latter. Saturday night movie night. Monday to Friday — TV and Netflix night. We’ve seen some fabulous stuff, _Succession, The End Of...

So we got all the money everybody was screaming for. Probably more than we asked for, and then with an irony that can't have escaped many of us, we were told "off you go, but no shows."  At the time of writing it increasingly looks like the government has cancelled Christmas. Now we are witnessing the unedifying spectacle of Johnson absolutely shitting himself himself about the mistakes he's made.  Only a few weeks ago it was "it'll be all over by Christmas." I think we've all heard that somewhere before. Now it seems like the government are coming to the recognition of the fact that our own particular Battle of the Somme is yet to come. and if that is the case, then there is no place for people gathering for entertainment. The worrying thing about the large sum of money that the government granted the arts, is that most of it seems to be being spent on buildings rather than people. Sadly one hears every day of people who are leaving the industry. Gr...