We’d initially planned a quiz, but let’s not pretend this will all be over soon. Best keep a few ideas back for when Netflix is exhausted and we’re dispiritedly eyeing a Last of the Summer Wine box set. Or every episode of Coronation Street since 1960.
The drinks were good. The company was... jumpy. One couple in particular had spawned three children since we last laid eyes on them, a measure of life’s ability to barrel you onwards like heedless balls of tumbleweed.
You work. You sleep. You make dinner and sort the kids. You go for a pint with your mate up the road because he’s here, not there. Plough, plough, plough.
But for the imprisonment enforced by the outbreak of Coronavirus most of us would still be ploughing along, impelled by habit and weariness onto the path of least resistance.
I’d probably have spent Saturday night watching a rerun of Predator on ITV4, or Match of the Day, or some subtitled Scandi misery.
I certainly wouldn’t have caught up with Rachel and Nick, and I probably wouldn’t have thought to message my oldest friend, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and is desperately at risk from the virus. I haven’t seen him for two years.
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SHAKERS REVEL IN MAKING HISTORY
DAVE McNabb says Bury's FA Cup heroes are proud to be writing their own chapters in club history.
WILCOX: WE FEEL COMPLETE WITH WIN
RUSS WILCOX'S verdict after watching his Gainsborough Trinity side outmuscle and outplay their hosts was that it was \"probably our most complete performance\".
CRACKER BY KABIA TOPPLES TUDORS!
ASSISTANT boss Stewart Yetton said his Truro City side were good value for their win over table-toppers Hemel Hempstead Town.
BRAKES PUT STOP ON BORO BATTLERS
SEPARATED only by goal difference before kick-off, these sides remain neck and neck in the embryonic table after playing out 90 minutes in the October sunshine that was a great advert for the division.
BOSS COTT'S GOT A REALLY GOOD THING WITH ROVERS
STEVE Cotterill hailed Forest Green Rovers’ first class performance as they produced a spirited comeback to topple fellow high-flyers Eastleigh at the Silverlake Stadium.
SKIPS STEER HEED'S SHIP
GATESHEAD captains of the past and present are playing a lead role in helping the National League club move on from the departure of FA Trophy-winning manager Rob Elliot.
FA CUP PREVIEW: SWEET! 'DREAM' DRAW IS CHANCE OF OUR LIFETIME
DAVE NORTHFIELD says minnows Biggleswade FC were like 'kids in a sweet shop' when they drew out York City in what he describes as the 'draw of a lifetime'.
PARKER'S HEART IS STILL AT HOME
FORMER England right-back Paul Parker has revealed he would never completely rule out a return to management – but says he would only do so for one of his beloved local clubs.
LOCALS RALLY TO REBUILD BRIDGE
WHEN committee members at Bamber Bridge set out to raise £30,000 to protect the club's future, they were apprehensive about the response they'd get.
RUTHLESS BEES FIND THEIR FEET
ASTERLING second-half performance resulted in league leaders Barnet brushing aside a Boston United outfit that led at the interval through Keaton Ward’s early strike.