During lockdown, when I couldn’t write restaurant reviews (and all the restaurants were closed), I wrote a weekly diary column. They’re all collected here for posterity.
- Week 1: Delivery services, ropy landlords, bad home cooking and mixtapes.
- Week 2: Locked in a graveyard, toasted sandwiches, working with a novelist and the Craig Morley Appreciation Society.
- Week 3: Broken dishwashers, the joys of having a garden, talking about politics and the perfect summer drink.
- Week 4: Hitting a wall, pisspoor local journalism and bacon sandwiches.
- Week 5: Volunteers and trying to look on the bright side.
- Week 6: Jill Dando (yes, really), Normal People and momo.
- Week 7: A love story.
- Week 8: Hash browns, Reading’s local websites and the return of Clay’s.
- Week 9: How social media makes you angry, weird dreams and more pisspoor local journalism.
- Week 10: On fragrance.
- Week 11: Lockdown habits and the return of the Lyndhurst.
- Week 12: On cutting down.
- Week 13: An intermission.
- Week 14: Is it time to go back to normal?
- Week 15: The shrinking world.
- Week 16: On reunions.