January 10, 2021
I’m trying to delete my social media accounts but it turns out that it isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. Like Donald Trump, freed this week from the responsibility to censure himself, I’m finding it hard to let go. I’ve considered that it might be symptomatic of something deeper. A reluctance to end things. My […]
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January 3, 2021
It’s New Year’s Day and we’re watching “Dunkirk” a film so full of dramatic trauma that, midway through, I have to go off to the toilet and look at the latest COVID figures on my phone for light relief. Often it’s been hard to see the benefits of a year most people are happy to […]
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December 20, 2020
I’m looking at a Venn diagram entitled, “Am I Overthinking This?” drawn by artist Michelle Rial and it’s providing a welcome distraction from trying to work out if we need an extra bottle of milk in the shopping. I’ve been saying for months that doing food shopping online is not only safer but also more […]
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December 13, 2020
One of the best things about lockdown is that I don’t have to go into shops, and not going into shops means that I haven’t had to listen to Mariah Carey singing “All I Want For Christmas Is You” incessantly while people push their way past one another buying cheap cologne and a Cadbury’s selection […]
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December 6, 2020
I’m walking the dog with my daughter realising it’s muddier than we’d thought and talking Christmas puddings. “Why do you make two every year?” she asks “So that we have a spare” “For what? An unexpected Christmas?” I do it because my mother did it. Every year there is one pudding leftover that sits in […]
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