Tuesday, February 21, 2023

First day of term, out of the house and on it.

1. Once everyone has left the house on the first day of term, I sit down with my Fortean Times for half an hour.

2. I come downstairs to scenes of jubilation: after ten days of false alarms, phone queues and broken promises a courier has come and taken Alec's defective laptop away so it can be replaced.

3. 'Sainsbury's are here, but Bettany and I are on it,' Nick calls up the stairs.

Guard, chalk cathedral and sanctuary.

 1. We are hurrying with our cases over the bridge. We end up behind a man in railway uniform carrying a pushchair for a stressed mother who...