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Covid-19 Diaries. Liverpool: (2) do we stick with our old but suddenly squeak-free Citroen?

                                   Sefton Park

We're told it's not a good time to think about or go ahead with moving home. What about cars? John McCormick, in his second Covid-19 diary from Liverpool - please see the full series at this link - ponders a decision that's been looming for while ...

 

Covid-19 Diaries. Liverpool: (1) when the Mersey beat falls silent

Lockdown in Liverpool: 2.30pm and the main road through the south of the city to Widnes and the new Mersey bridge is deserted

 

 

When Salut! took its first breath in 2006, many readers - and there were a great many, most of them from the large following I'd amassed with my blogging from Paris for The Daily Telegraph - were grateful to see relatively few mentions of football.

Soon enough, I launched Salut! Sunderland, which talked of little else and lasted, with some success in terms of readership, until the end of 2019 (the link takes you to the successor site). It has taken the coronavirus outbreak to bring the team together again. With this stirring contribution from John McCormick, four of the five people to have written so far for Salut!'s Covid-19 Diaries were connected to the football site. John was its associate editor. Here is his lockdown story ...