AT the time of writing, I was expecting to hear the result from my COVID test. As thanks for being a dad, and living with young snotty noses, this was my third such occasion; never has the family cold been so inconvenient! In fact, life has become tiresome by necessity, with uncomfortable tests and awkward rubbing of elbows, while keeping 1.5 metres, all within a seated two metres squared. Do not forget the COVID survey, and sterilising, before another Zoom, showing off your rounded “iso-body”, to hear you are now paid less, and then perhaps not at all ... after-all, who can predict the future? Anxious and depressed anyone?
Oddly, considering all the inconvenience, hardship, lives lost and news channels spreading ubiquitous pandemic gloom, I have also been buoyed by…
