If I’m not released from my house soon there will be nothing left in it. Everything has been tidied, organised, pared down, rationalised and streamlined to such an extent that I could probably fit the entire contents into a small trunk. I have even caught myself idly wondering if I could put the cat on…
Month: March 2021
No, I have no plans
Freedom is in the air. People are busy making plans. They’re reserving tables in restaurants, arranging museum visits, reserving hotel rooms and even booking flights. At any other time there would be nothing remarkable about this, but now we live in a different time and there is. I don’t seem to have the will to…
Looking for a new obsession
I have to be honest, I am fretting. We are halfway through the final series of Call My Agent!, the highly entertaining French series about a talent agency in Paris. We have been watching one episode a night for weeks now and I don’t know what I’ll do with myself when it’s finished. Should we…
Emerging into the light
I have been idly wondering if I’ll emerge from lockdown a better person. I’d like to think that I will, but somehow I doubt it. Hardship is supposed to build character, but I have a feeling that when all this is finally over I’ll probably emerge pretty much the same, perhaps a bit podgier. Of…