COVID-19 Lockdown

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A picture from the ground that I took today, a warm Sunday afternoon in May. There is a game of cricket going on here, but it's not what I would have expected at this point in the calendar. But then, 2020 is no normal year, and I think there's a long way to go before any kind of normality returns to our world.


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