I can only speak for myself but if I wasn’t a sandwich short of picnic before COVID19, I sure as hell am now! The whole world, including yours truly is still becoming familiar with their new normal. Practicing social distancing and spending more and more time at home. Living 24/7 in my own skin, without the distraction of travel or an overpriced coffee, is a sobering experience. There is only so much of a Netflix addiction I can take and believe me, I can take a lot. It’s not knowing when this pandemic will ease up, that’s let the kangaroos loose in my top paddock. (As they never say in Australia.) You a Cooler King? It’s little wonder that the prison system has for years used social isolation, in the form of solitary confinement, as a form of punishment. In the Great Escape, The Cooler King played by the King of Cool Steve McQueen, was always being thrown into ‘The Hole’. Luckily for him, Zee Germans allowed him to take his baseball and glove with him, otherwise he might have...

Living in a B-Movie? The thing about being locked away for any length of time, is that it tends to mess with your top-deck's wiring. Coupled with the need to while away countless evenings, we’ve collectively turned to the likes of Netflix or Amazon Prime, to take our minds off the current Coronavirus conundrum. But what do we find? A whole host of movies and shows that instead of whisking us away from the real pandemic crisis, lands us slap bang into a screenwriter’s version of our current situation! Homadamus?   The Simpsons have for years been accused of having a crystal ball, allowing them to predict events with uncanny accuracy. Matt Groening’s creation has nailed Trump’s tenure in the White House, Smart Watches, FaceTime, Autocorrect Fails, even Lady Gaga’s half-time Superbowl entrance. They’re no stranger to predicting Viruses either, with them spooking America during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Marge is seen reading Bart a book entitled ‘Curious George and the E...