My. Lad. Its noon on one of the last days of april in downtown madrid everything goes quiet every day at 12 oclock people remember the victims of the fires pandemic on this day the ministry of health registers almost 24000 deaths so far. When we started filming for this report spain was in total lockdown one of the strictest in the world. As a journalist im allowed to move around freely in the city where ive lived for 3 years a city i know is noisy fast and brash. With it. But now i no longer recognise madrid is the locals on their balconies feel the sign. Is that it has been locked in for almost 50 days its so. Im hyperactive and i dont know how to do nothing as you know that now that i know everything when our son grows up well tell him how it was to be stuck at home for months without seeing the family the isnt it you know does that seem bad of me yes yes if you start to miss the buzz that vibrancy of the city im sure i miss it terribly miss the misses. At the start of the lockdown
First debated, i rid keel skull then embraced the possibility of saving an hour of lay diagnose. No one can say for sure why were required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme . The most authoritative sources suggest was a pittsburgh industrialist, woodrow wilson, mon an horse in london, manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin. One of the caesars are the anonymous makers of japanese and chinese water clocks. Toy prisoning forward is a portrait of pock policy in 20th century, perennial boiling caldron of unsubstantiated science, mysteriously shifting time zone boundaries. A special comedy with congress in at the leading roll. Surrounded by a support cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stock both brokers, sports fanatics and railroad executives, Michael Downing this author of four novels including breakfast with scott and shoes outside the door, a history of the scandal that rocked the San Francisco center. He teaches creative writing at Tufts
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