One strange thing about this quarantine business is the way it's affecting my social life. I've just spent almost two and a half hours on the video-phone with someone I would never have phoned before, very rarely saw socially, and now we seem to have a weekly standing wine-date.

I don't want to speak too soon and I'm sure there are other factors but I feel as if more than any other "life event" this is "find out who your real friends are" - geography no object, childcare less so than usual, who to spend time with feels more of a deliberate mutual choice.

At the same time - the last few things I did Before Lockdown have taken on a weird new nostalgic significance