For those interested and puzzled by Long Cover this article in Lancet Infectious Diseases exposes both our ignorance and preferred strategies for understanding: doi.org/10.1016/ S1473-3099(21)00333-9

For those interested in nidotherapy and its expanded form, Adaptive and Acceptance Therapy, specifically for personality problems, note 14th and 15th September for the next (virtual) workshop. Joining is free. Click on website for details

Am writing 6th edition of Models for Mental Disorder, first published in 1987. We are losing sight of the integrative model that covers all. All ideas to avoid tramlines welcomed.

An overheated brain?

Canterbury stained glass revelations – older than thought. Were the images of Canterbury pilgrims there at Chaucer’s time too? See the re-enactment of the Newark pilgrims’ journey - youtube.com/watch?v=VL2lNX…

If you want to know exactly how US psychiatry stands at present read the excoriating review by Andrew Scull in Psychological Medicine (First View) - American psychiatry in the new millennium: a critical appraisal

One of the advantages of mortality is that it cannot be cheated by autocrats, so truth will always win.

All potato lovers please note. First Early potatoes are unfairly named: they can be kept in the ground until late August; the crop is a mixture of very large and fairly small potatoes - all delicious.

Professor Michael King has just died - a sad loss. Not only was he an excellent research colleague but also a staunch advocate of human rights. His flame will burn on

A Wonderland, as Alice might say, 'is a place where you would like to believe is true but when you wake up you know its not'.

It is curious that so many people think the main motivation of academics in writing books is to make money. Most don’t; I get a few hundred pounds every year- it all goes to charity. Our role is to educate and reform, not to accumulate.

Personality disorder does not forecast permanent bad weather; it is merely a storm warning. See how much it changes over 30 years

Traffic light system for storing tomatoes. Pick before the autumn rains, store in closed drawer when green, turn over when yellow, harvest when red. Never fails.

These are the manifold Tanzanian figures nestling in the writing of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels, his Nobel Prize generously dedicated to all Africans

Why do those who are exploited become exploiters in their turn? Whoever solves the puzzle gets a Nobel prize.

I am desperate to get a ticket for Sheffield Wednesday v Barnsley play-off final at Wembley on 29th May as I have supported them (isn away games) ever since 1945. Can anyone help?

Please note that May 25th is International Personality Spectrum Day, a day in which we can all display our diversity with pride.

Social prescribers and link workers may be interested in this teaching programme in nidotherapy that should help to improve their skills.

'What did you do to make Sheffield Wednesday win, Dad?' 'I told them if they were really hungry they could have three seconds'

What is pinnarism? Circumspice