Welcome to the July edition of the Spectrum
Although experts such as Prof. John Ashton are saying the pandemic has a long time to run yet before we can get back to “normal”, I judge from your comments that we should move away, for a while, from the subject of covid. So I’m asking for contributions about your hobbies and anything else you do to fill your time. That includes work, volunteering, and pets — indeed, anything you want to write about, it’s good to hear about everything that occupies you.
As I write this, we’ve just had our second warm night of the year and the garden is beginning to grow like it knows it has a lot of time to make up, due to the exceptionally cold and snowy spring. I hope to be spending more of my time “pottering in the garden” than I have for many years, as well as enjoying the flavours of home-grown vegetables, but the storms have set things back so far that that might have to wait for next year. Maybe I can manage a few experimental crops, but I doubt it will be many.
Another return is in the form of a comic strip — I ran a comic strip for a year about fifteen years ago, and it was popular, but nobody else wanted to draw one, so no more happened until this year. Visit our Art Gallery to read the second Aspie cat strip, which I hope you enjoy. Please let me know what you think, as that will determine whether it keeps running.
As I used to mention often, if you feel there’s something missing from the magazine, then the best way to change that is to write (or draw) that thing and send it in, as this magazine is created entirely by its readers — it is all your own hard work that we enjoy here, and the standard of contributions always amazes me.
the Editor
