{"id":69,"count":88,"description":"MEANWHILE IN THE UK\r\n\r\nMeanwhile in the UK<\/a> by Mick Hart, an expat Englishman living in Kaliningrad. A category of the blog expatkaliningrad.com\r\n\r\nMeanwhile in the UK<\/a> is a category of my blog expatkaliningrad.com. At its inception, I had fully intended it to be a minor category, allowing me to comment from time to time on UK current affairs but mainly to include innocuous pieces of a nostalgic or historical nature pertaining to life in the UK, possibly more as it was then than as it is now, and then along came coronavirus which, as we know, changed everything. At the time of writing (3 June 2020), thanks to coronavirus, this category would appear to contain as many if not more posts than some of \u00a0the categories that I had envisaged would be salient, with due deference to my Diary category (2019\/2020) which, again influenced by coronavirus, has expanded through my \u2018Diary of a Self-isolator\u2019 articles, a series that focuses specifically on Covid-19 in the Kaliningrad region and how the legal rules and social obligations enacted here to better control the virus have impacted our daily life.\r\n\r\nMEANWHILE in the UK<\/a> contains too many entries to preview in this category post, but as of 3 June 2020, the contents of this category comprise the following articles, arranged chronologically:\r\n\r\nIndependence Day: Freedom from the EU<\/a>\r\n\r\nTalking Wollocks<\/a>\r\n\r\nDad\u2019s Army by Roger Corman<\/a>\r\n\r\nBeing British is Bliss<\/a>\r\n\r\nChastised & Locked Down<\/a>\r\n\r\nA Brother Calls<\/a>\r\n\r\nClaptrap ~ It\u2019s Contagious!<\/a>\r\n\r\nCoronavirus & Rights: an Unholy Alliance<\/a>\r\n\r\nCoronavirus warning: Speech impediment could be new dastardly coronavirus symptom<\/a>\r\n\r\nI don\u2019t believe in could anymore<\/a>\r\n\r\nSelf-isolating\/Lockdown: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)<\/a>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a great time to be a hypochondriac<\/a>\r\n\r\nLOCKDOWN! ~ the game that everyone is talking about \u2026<\/a>\r\n\r\nAt least we can all die laughing<\/a>\r\n\r\nEXIT STRATEGY ~ a new bored game<\/a>\r\n\r\nHow to tell The New Normal from your elbow<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe Sorry State We Live In<\/a>\r\n\r\nBanners need a course in banners ~ and the rest<\/a>\r\n\r\nClueless ~ a World Health Board Game<\/a>\r\n\r\nSo, what are we to believe and how should we proceed?<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Lockdown\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1339\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"225\"]\"Meanwhile Hello! Hello! Hello![\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1228\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\"]\"UK UK Lockdown ~ a new board game to take your mind off lockdown[\/caption]\r\n\r\nMeanwhile in the UK<\/a>\r\n\r\nI am aware that the tone and, indeed, the very composition of these pieces may not be to everybody\u2019s taste. Quite obviously they are not supposed to be, so I shall not waste anybody\u2019s time pretending that I feel in the least bit sorry about that. England is a great country ~ and the other chunks attached to it are not that bad either ~ BUT \u2026 (could this be an acronym for Britain Undermined Totally? Or is the only thing missing \u2026TOCK?). He sang, didn\u2019t he, \u2018Let me take you by the hand I\u2019ll lead you through the streets of London\u2019. Well, yes, mainly London but also almost any and every UK city and town. Still, as the man who never deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature said (no, I am not referring to Obama, that was the Nobel Peace Prize, or Noble Appeasing Prize or something like that ~ but if the hoody fits, so to speak), \u2018Times they are a-changing\u2019. Let\u2019s hope so, because for the UK at this present moment in time it is very much Paul McCartney, \u2018Yesterday \u2026\u2019","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/","name":"Meanwhile in the UK","slug":"meanwhile-in-the-uk","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=69"},{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages?categories=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}