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Yesterday late afternoon I was chatting on the phone to an old friend who has contracted Coronavirus for 2 weeks. It’s wiped him out though fortunately did not reach his lungs. My friend, though Jewish, holds somewhat passionate atheist views. One matter we discussed in this context was that my [...]

When I was at uni, I played a silly but amusing game with a friend in which we passed legislation in our imaginary country. Thus one day I suggested an act making prostitution compulsory. My friend thought it needed modification in committee stage. After a lengthy meeting in the tea room of the [...]

With my cleaner deciding she was no longer coming in and the laundry collection service suspended, I was forced to do my own washing and ironing on bedding change day. The ironing I managed but lowering the ironing board, for which there seemed to be no lever, was more problematic. As I  folded my [...]