Sajid Javid, who has taken over as the UK’s Secretary of State of Health from the unwholesome Matthew Hancock, seems certain that Covid restrictions will be lifted next month. He is spinning a fable that the old way of British life will return. He must be mad. Robin Westenra at Seemorerocks considers the lockdown variants planned for most of us in the increasingly uncivilized world.

This morning I began a final survey of St Oswald’s churchyard, with the intention of getting the job done before the world ends. Time for family history research will be limited for a while but I should be able to continue posting a Filey photograph each day.

Measure of Man 57 · Aircraft Carrier

HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently poking the bear off the coast of Syria.