During the first national lockdown in 2020, 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.