Digested week: start with a Monday from hell and go from there

The pandemic continues to be a ball-ache but we were given a tiny and surprising point of light

Monday

Today was the kind of Monday we all dream of having. My 10-year-old son fell, hurt various bits of himself and smashed his two front teeth on the pavement. We spent the day in A&E, then the dentist. I and the extended family went into uncharacteristic convulsions when presented with the necessity of the latter, because our folk memory is saturated with horror stories of oral tortures past.