Lockdown again - day 2 - how did it come to this?

Our friend is up from London, having spent four months in a flat on his own, so we’d planned an evening last night of take-out pizzas and beer in our garden. Even the weather bought into the plan.

Of course we couldn’t do it so instead we met on the local rec; I am a middle-aged mother of two drinking tinnies in the dark in a field. How did that happen?

On the way there I passed the pub at the top of my road - at least twelve people outside smoking, not even remotely socially distanced. I am so glad we can rely on that sort of behaviour to get us out of this mess.