Archives for: "January 2021"
A stranger gives me a new drug
On Sunday I was released from isolation. I felt a prisoner not of the virus but of Cath, who kept me in despite her taking us up to the local rugby club, getting tested, and both of us being negative. "But it's the incubation period," she argued. I want… more »
Bring out your dead
On the bus on the way home from work on Thursday, I get a text from Cath. "You're not going to work tomorrow! Ha!" I assumed that there had been another slalom in government policy and that those of us whose lives are very boring because we're office… more »
Cath takes me by surprise
Mel and I went on an essential business trip on New Year's Eve, which required hotel accommodation. There were two receptionists on duty; fortunately we got the Spanish one, who was less searching in his questions than his English colleague, who was… more »
The last letter
I got off work on Tuesday, remembering not to tell anyone where I was going, stowing my luggage under the desk, ready for a 4.30pm flit to Lancaster. My erroneously-issued and now out of date rail pass added another £170 to the thousands it has saved… more »
