May 3, 2020
I’m playing “Grand Theft Auto” because my son wants to relive a little of his past. His girlfriend, who is isolating in the house too, is less keen so I decide to take it for a test drive but find myself hopelessly ill equipped. “It’s much harder than ‘Red Dead Redemption'” I complain. “I don’t […]
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April 26, 2020
When I was much younger I had a relationship with a married woman that was destructive for both of us. For her, it was a reckless response to an unhappy marriage. For me, it was a hopeless attempt at finding something I wasn’t ready for. Whenever she could get away, she would come to my […]
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April 19, 2020
My daughter is learning to play the guitar and my son has grown a beard. It seems there is no end to the unusual things that might occur in a lockdown. “Every man should grow a beard at some point, just to show that he can,” I told him once. He had scoffed at the […]
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April 12, 2020
Walking the dog with my daughter she asks me if I will proofread her assignment. “Sure, what’s it about?” I ask “Milgram’s study of obedience,” she tells me. “The one where he convinces people to electrocute strangers when they get questions wrong? “Yep, that’s the one.” It feels like a study for our times when […]
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April 12, 2020
Having made the mistake of reading the news on my phone before even getting out of bed I find myself under a cloud. It’s hard sometimes to resist the gloom, and the irony of hankering after the days when all we had to worry about was Brexit is not lost on me. The last time […]
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