Tag: Distancing
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New Year, and a Life in Captivity
So the New Year is striking off on a down-beat note. Differences from the celebrations of other years could not be more marked, at least if we obeyed the conventional wisdom and kept our seasonal conviviality strictly to ourselves. The which we did, self and memsahib, bingeing on Netflix and scarcely bothering to note…
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Gift Wrapped.
This is a tribute. Whatever damage to our health this black COVID comedy has visited upon us, its most permanent effect has been the demise of our traditional way of shopping. Although our physical wellbeing will return, we are witnessing the final decline of the Mall, the Department Store, the High Street retailer. So, a…
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Out of Darkness?
“Round to your left, please!” There are ways of saying ‘please’, which vary from earnest entreaty to thinly-disguised threat. This is the latter. “Did you order online?” She stands in command of her little empire of plastic bollards and fake crime tape, stockily built, belligerent and enjoying the anonymity of her paper mask. “Do…
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