Decameron 2020

DECAMERON 2020 - A Lockdown DiaryIn the iconic tradition of Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable Decameronwritten shortly after the Black Death of 1346 a group of 10 friends, a couple of spouses and other contributors in Scotland amused themselves during the First Lockdown of the 2020 Pandemic by writing essays and poems and creating artworks and paintings to entertain one another.Every ten days a theme was chosen by one of the original ten and relayed through a Zoom meeting.

With the youngest participant celebrating his 18th birthday and the oldest celebrating her 78th, this entertaining and thought provoking book comprises over 100 little masterpieces of memoir, observation and creative contemplation from a suitably distanced and uniquely diverse cross-section of contemporary society.Andrew Brown, Marie-Louise Brulatour Mills, Barbara Dickson, Jonathan Gibbs, Celine Hispiche, Dorothy Jackson, Roddy Martine, Jessie Ann Matthew, Mark McLeod, Catherine Maxwell Stuart, Mark Muller Stuart, Callum Stark, Pat Watson, Marie Weir.