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Covid-19 Diaries. Harrow: (4) 'excuse me sir, are you sure this isn't your second walk today?'

Tony Evans: 'taken in Uganda in the 1960s, with my arm in the lion's mouth this shows what a fool I was for a good story. The lion trainer said I would be fine, so I believed him.  My daughter Victoria(6) was very laid back about the whole thing, and tangled her little fingers in the lion's tail and yanked  -  hard.  Fortunately I'd moved my arm by then'.

 

And now for Tony's further thoughts on lockdown, with lack of exercise -  er - exercising his mind. See the full Covid-19 Diaries series here

 

Covid-19 Diaries. Harrow: (3) unmasked - the Chinese sender of a mercy parcel to London

 

 

This photo shows Tang Chi Kin "of parcel fame" and her husband who visited Tony and Tina from Hong Kong in 2016. Chi Kin had previously stayed chez les Evans for about six months. Left to right: Tony, Chi Kin, Tina (Tony's wife), Eddie (Chi Kin's husband)

 

 

Among many great anecdotes in Salut!'s series of Covid-19 diaries, there have been none to beat Tony Evans's story of the hamper of essential goods sent to him in London from China by a former lodger. The caption above shows the Good Samaritan - please eat your heart out Allison Pearson - while Tony, below, offers more on life in confinement ...

 

Covid-19 Diaries. Harrow: (2) finally catching up with the rise of the Roman Empire. The fall can wait

Tony Evans brought us the priceless story of the emergency package that arrived on his doorstep from China. Now he explains how he's filling in time during the great lockdown ... 

Like something out of Tolkien, unfathomed danger awaits every step and a dark and implacable evil lurks over the next horizon. 

  A trip to the supermarket becomes a shivery expedition to Mordor where touching the wrong thing or getting too close to someone else leads to inevitable destruction.

 

Covid-19 Diaries. Harrow: treasures from China

Tina is on the right. Between us is a neighbour from our apartment complex in Siolim

 

Tony Evans, another of my former colleagues from decades ago (and an enduring friend) is one of the youngest eightysomethings I know though I do have an amazingly sprightly French aunt-in-law pushing 100. Here he tells of a heartwarming gesture ...