Highgate Eastern Cemetery
I’ve become a regular visitor to Highgate Cemetery. By “regular”, I don’t mean frequent – rather, every two months or so. And by “Highgate Cemetery”, I mean the lower side (Eastern). I’ve yet to wander round the older, more gothic upper side (Western). Until recently access was only permitted by guided tour.
We’ll Mostly Make Up Our Own Minds
March 2020. It all seemed very strange. We were in Spain, leaving a couple of days before the lockdown that had just been announced there.
Given two days’ notice, the second homeowners of Madrid and other metropolises busted out in refugee numbers, fleeing to the Costas. At the time, it seemed that the Spanish authorities had badly bungled. This year, a similarly signalled lockdown in France was deliberately timed to allow people in Paris to escape to second homes… thus it goes. Nothing short of police state tactics is going to prevent the well-off from arranging their lockdown lives away from the cities, if they so choose, in spite of the hollow guidance of governments everywhere.
