You know you’ve had a successful party when, despite two good downpours and the need to hold down the collapsible (and occasionally collapsing) gazebo when the gusts whipped up for a short time, everyone remains in good humour, and eats and drinks well. Such was the case yesterday, when some of Anne’s siblings and mine,… Continue reading Party Time
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Grief in the time of Covid
It was a two bottle of Gavi kind of evening. That is two bottles between two of us, in case you’re counting. Yesterday morning we sent Anne’s brother Mark off to the ‘inn at the end of the world’ (G.K. Chesterton – The Feast of the Snow). Where, under normal circumstances, the church would be… Continue reading Grief in the time of Covid