Holiday snap taken today: Whitby Abbey Where did we come in? Forgive me for a bit of introspection this month. I started this blog in the dark days of January 2021 when more than a thousand people a day were dying of COVID-19. I resolved to write a weekly blog, not so much to bemoan the situation of the pandemic, although I was deeply disturbed by it, but to impose a discipline on myself to keep writing. I had previously been reasonably prolific in writing short fiction, but since the lockdowns of 2020, my imagination seemed to have dried up. I felt I needed to carry on communicating in some way. So the weekly blog ‘Mister Duffy Changes Trains’ was born. From the outset, I was determined not to bore everyone with my political views, to wri...