This post is rather more personal than usual but I wanted to write down some thoughts during these most uncertain COVID-19 times. Normal coffee- and travel-post service to resume...at some point, I hope.
“I never realised you were so into football,” a colleague said to me last year. It was a fair point: although I had mentioned the game and my team — Wolverhampton Wanderers — periodically over the five years we’d been working together, I'd also been inflicting my updates on my non-football-following co-workers with increasing frequency.
11 May 2020
Lockdown Lit: Five Fab Crime Novel Series
Like many people, my prime time for reading was on my commute, which gave me a total of 90 minutes to two hours per day with a book or my Kindle. I read 135 books in 2019, most of them on the bus, but when lockdown was introduced, I found it hard to motivate myself to read. I had so much more time to myself but I couldn't tear myself away from the Sisyphean search for scintillating shows on streaming services, or random rabbit holes on the internet.
