Stay updated with breaking news from Empire antarctica. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Skye arts festival celebrates the sea obantimes.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from obantimes.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FOR most of the 20 years Gavin Francis has been a GP, his working life had a pattern and a rhythm that didn t change. In fact, it’s a pattern and a rhythm that probably hadn’t altered for decades, he reckons. To be a GP at the start of the 21st century was not so very different from being a GP in the 1960s or 1970s. “There was a kind of timeless feeling about the nature of the work,” he tells me. And then this time last year everything began to change. Sunday morning. January 4. It is the day before the latest lockdown is announced and Francis is thinking about our lives under the shadow of the coronavirus; about how his life and work has changed in the last 12 months and how everyone else’s has too. ....