We had plans this weekend. My family were due to visit us at our new place. I intended to cook for them and to make up our guest bed with freshly laundered sheets, to walk around the garden and ask my mum the names of plants I didn’t recognise. Coronavirus had different ideas. On Friday we entered semi-lockdown again. We rain-checked; crossed our fingers for Christmas. And I thought about how it has been this way all year. Everything provisional, as likely as not to happen.
On Rain Checks
On Rain Checks
On Rain Checks
We had plans this weekend. My family were due to visit us at our new place. I intended to cook for them and to make up our guest bed with freshly laundered sheets, to walk around the garden and ask my mum the names of plants I didn’t recognise. Coronavirus had different ideas. On Friday we entered semi-lockdown again. We rain-checked; crossed our fingers for Christmas. And I thought about how it has been this way all year. Everything provisional, as likely as not to happen.