‘Everyone calls to say how marvellous I am’ –… January 2020: I scan the New Year’s Day edition of the Times. On page 37 there is a news in brief about a virus in…
Digested week: I’ve finally realised how… MondayI appreciate that I am about to hang my dirty – or at least selfish and unreflective – washing out here for…
Digested week: waking early, working late,… MondayWe are on holiday. This is a complete misnomer. What I mean is: the school holidays have begun, I’m taking…
Digested week: no one knows if my taste will… MondayHaving Covid was unpleasant but mercifully brief. The worst of the symptoms gone in just over a week. But…
Digested week: practice doesn’t make perfect for… MondayWith impeccable timing I managed to get Covid just a few weeks after the government announced that as far as…
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Digested week: when is a party not a party? You… MondayLast Christmas was probably the worst my wife and I had spent together in all the years we have been…
Digested week: The Atlantic can’t protect me… MondayIt has been a feature o f Covid that, along with all the other bad things ushered in by the pandemic, it has…