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The plague has hit London, and as Christmas approaches, Will and Kate are in wave fifteen of state-enforced home confinement together in Will’s London lodgings.
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Five minutes ago someone started ringing a handbell on the marketplace ouside my house.
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It's a small, socially distanced, parade with a santa on a reindeer pulled sleigh, they've just headed off down the main shopping street.
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But for a moment there I thought it was a new lockdown measure and was half expecting to hear cries of 'Bring out you dead'.
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But for a moment there I thought it was a new lockdown measure and was half expecting to hear cries of 'Bring out you dead'.
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In October my Facebook feed was full of ads for Plague Doctor costumes (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor" ipsnoembed="true" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor</a>).
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I've seen that image before for years (even on album covers) but never knew what it meant until now.