Another face covering has just arrived. This from my friend Rachel, who is working with Kenyan women on a recycling project. And it’s gone in the drawer with all the other masks that I have been given or bought over recent weeks. Do they work? I haven’t the foggiest. Because this country’s confusing guidance on … Read more
It used to be so simple. Your friends were people you liked to hang out with. People you found interesting and had a laugh with. There were some you saw regularly and others less frequently but the key qualification for friendship was whether you enjoyed their company. Now, though, everything is different. Now we have to … Read more
It’s been nearly 11 weeks since we were told that what we had previously thought of as normal daily life was to be shut down. Most of the activities we enjoyed would be off the menu: restaurants, hairdressers, dinner parties, garden centres, multi-generational family gatherings, sport. When Boris announced lockdown that evening of March 23, … Read more
‘Without fail every time’: Jesy Nelson is left in floods of tears after rewatching The Notebook during emotional afternoon at home By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 16:26 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 16:46 BST, 4 June 2020 A decades spanning tale of undying love played havoc with Jesy Nelson’s emotions as she settled … Read more
Our 13-year-old cat Coco clearly knows something is up. Her next-door neighbour Pumpkin, has gone AWOL (his owners having taking him out of London) and, more unusually, she can see that we are around all the time. Last week, an animal psychologist reported that many dogs are enjoying life in lockdown because they are getting … Read more
The shattering news that Boris had been admitted to intensive care will be remembered as one of the defining moments of the coronavirus outbreak. Until then, for those of us lucky enough not to have severely ill friends and family, there was still an element of this being a phoney war, something we were waiting … Read more
Arriving at a lunch last week, my host introduced me to the other guests as ‘a coronavirus denier’. This was because I had been to a party a few nights before along with several people who had recently spent time in Milan – an activity he regarded as being on a par with visiting a … Read more