RUMPELSTILTSKIN IS MY NAME! One of the symptoms of a narcissistic personality disorder is the terror of saying, "I'm Sorry'" It is rather like the fairy story of Rumpelstiltskin * where the protagonist is in terror of anybody finding out, or speaking his name. The inability to say 'I'm sorry' is often linked with an [...]
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Thursday May 28th The Coronet Diaries
YOU ARE HERE (PHOTO BY JOHN HAYNES) BUT WHERE AM I ? WHERE ARE WE? A new phenomenon is creeping in when I talk to my 'patients'. They are confused. Rather more than three people already this week have expressed reluctance to go outside their homes. They report feeling confused, anxious about what they can [...]
Wednesday May 27th The Coronet Diaries
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLUEDO ON ZOOM There are many things I have learnt since starting Zoom sessions during the pandemic. A golden rule is never argue with anyone you are on Zoom with over technology. When it fails I have learnt to hold my feisty tongue, not to riposte, " But I have been on [...]
Tuesday May 26th The Coronet Diaries
BLOOD LETTING ANTIBODIES TEST A RESULT OF ACCURATE TESTING STILL NOT BEING COMMONLY AVAILABLE Yesterday, I saw my daughter Tanya for the first time in nine weeks as she decided to return from family-lockdown-life in Hove. She drove to our house, fortunately she now has a convertible after not owning a car for I cannot [...]
Monday 25th May The Coronet Diaries
RASPUTIN'S SHIPWRECK .... MALPUS CORNWALL (Photo John Haynes) DOMINIC CUMMINGS MUST BE SACKED CHANGE.ORG PETITION. Today is blood letting day and my antibodies test. I was talking to someone on Zoom at the end of the week. They reminded me that during 2019 they wrote a diary for a year. Sometimes their daily entry was [...]
Sunday 24th May The Coronet Diaries.
A MIRACLE ... CORNWALL LAST SUMMER I woke up this morning and had the heavenly thought, perhaps there will be a miracle and this rough beast of a virus will dwindle. Dwindle to nothing. Perhaps... Zoom's artificial intelligence escalates by the week. Last week when I thought I had a free slot due to a [...]
Saturday May 23rd. The Coronet Diaries
The same tree on the verge but a different day (Photo John Haynes) A gloomy thought in a green shade. I need to do my antibodies test but as it is a bank holiday weekend probably best to wait for posting until Monday. In the same way that I commented about Bell's swab so are [...]
