When people ask me what I’m doing these days, my first reaction is to say “Well, what is anyone doing?” But I have realised that this is not the right answer and most people have a much more impressive list of achievements than I do. I hear tales of immaculate gardens, painfully clean houses and…
Month: April 2020
The three stages of lockdown life
Now that we’ve lived through nearly four weeks of lockdown, and with a few more still to come, I’ve started to think that lockdown life follows a pattern, with three distinct stages. Quite a few of us started out thinking that it would be rather nice to spend some productive time at home, but I…
The dark recesses of the lockdown larder
The recent worry over food shortages led me to take a good look at the food we have lurking in dark forgotten corners of our pantry. I love having a pantry, it makes me think that we’re living in the 1950s, the sunny Enid Blyton version and not the Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 version. Definitely…
View from inside
What are we doing with ourselves now that we can’t while away the time in cafés and shops? Have we embarked on a strict project of self-improvement? Have we joined Gareth Malone’s online national choir so that we can frighten the cat with an off-key version of Elton John’s I’m Still Standing? Or are we…