It felt almost like summer out on the beach, alone apart from a few stray walkers with their dogs, acres and acres of empty sand stretching out to the lighthouse, no waves, only the lightest breeze, the sound of the gulls, and otherwise the uttermost, infinite silence and emptiness:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
There is something ironic about this weather. Today is another beautiful day as Boris announces his lock-down, rightly in my view.