We should have been together in Rome at the height of lockdown, not two of us - Bill and Lesley - making the best of it in Toronto and us - Colin and Joelle - waiting for the moment, which did eventually come, to flee London for France.
Throughout this grisly period, Bill Taylor has kept up a daily stream of funny, incisive, sad, angry, despairing, hopeful, reflective, downbeat, navel-gazing, pertinent, thoughtful diaries from Canada. He claims to have run out of his own adjectives and for the second time - there has been a comeback tour after his first announcement of the end of the series two or three weeks ago - Bill has decided to call a halt.
As you read on, you'll see it's not exactly definitive. It just won't be daily any more. The wonder in any case is that he's produced such gems every day for so long, invariably accompanied by his own photographs; 34 in the series as reproduced here doesn't tell half the story and only just tells more than a third of it. The rest is at his Facebook pages though I may well get round to bringing it all together here unless Bill gets the publishing contract his efforts clearly merit ...
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