One of my favourite sounds is the silence that flops onto my table when heads bend over plates and forks get to work. The attention to the cook’s labours, the answer to hunger’s rumble. For a while the belly filling is the only thing until someone remembers that we’re not animals allowed to respond to […]
Things I think about ‘best before’ dates
Coronavirus: the education continues
Can you believe that it’s more than a month since we started this particular adventure? Back in early March we didn’t know what furlough, self-isolation, social distancing and PPE were. Remember? A different country. Well, we’re lucky to be healthy and adjusting to this life. And the education continues. Here’s what I’ve learned. Do not […]
Coronavirus: We’re all in the same boat
Coronavirus: Stockpiling or a feast of clearing out
There are, we learn, riots in the bog roll aisles as frantic shoppers grapple for the last Andrex before it’s too late. Too late for what? Goodness knows. Coronavirus is making its methodical way around the world and will get here eventually, no matter what we do. Concerning, yes. Prompting an uncontrollable urge for piles […]