Virtually

I have such great colleagues, who are also friends. We’re providing each other lots of mutual support online at this bizarre time. Pippa messaged during the day to check how I was faring and we arranged a post-work ‘virtual G&T’. This was very lively and fun after a day during which the solitude of the next couple of months feels fairly daunting and depressing. I’ve been wearing the same clothes for a few days and realised they’re covered in food flakes. It’s time to step it up a notch on the routine and discipline.

Pip revved me out of somewhat of a slump and I went on an evening stroll around Cambridge as the light faded. It’s a great place for this especially with fewer bikes and buses lurching at you from different directions. This image is of the Millpond from the Silver Street bridge next to Queens’ College. The majority of traffic around town is now comprised of motorcyclists and cyclists delivering food orders. One large cluster of them waiting outside City Kebab negated the social isolation that solitary walkers are having to practise. I wonder whether they could play their part more by spreading around the pavements as they await their steaming orders of chicken nuggets and fries.