Lots going on, so sometimes I try to ignore it by wasting time - and surely, to steal from Shakespeare, time will waste me, soon enough.
A few days ago, I stumbled across "Bardcore". A number of people, possibly unable to get out much - there's a lot of that going around - are taking recent, or relatively recent, songs, and converting them into songs worthy of the smoky main hall of an ancient manor.
Unsurprisingly, country music hits work quite well with medieval settings; country and western owes a lot to old English folksongs.
Rather more surprising is how effectively this 2011 hit is transported several centuries into the past:
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