Weird things about lockdown

"The weird thing about lockdown is how we all got used to it so quickly," said my daughter, as we went for our regulation exercise the other night. "Humans are very adaptable, I suppose." And in one way she's right - we're all instinctively veering out and steering clear and wiping down and washing washing washing. ...

A Ballad for my Sixth Class Girl (I promise it’s not actually a ballad)

Four years old. Just over three feet high. In a uniform that was ludicrously long. Tiny then, even tinier in hindsight, and in the pictures I can still find on my phone. The pictures I was going to use for the “First Day Last Day” post, like the ones I saw on Facebook last June. First ...