[Nights] Good to hear you were allowed back - and you successfully managed to drive on the wrong side of the road for a bit! Apparently tea and chocolate bars are OK (vegetable origin) but filled chocolates (truffles, bonbons) are not - they contain something more closely related to dairy - so the Dutch Marechaussee told me. And if you can't eat the whole box of chocolates in the car at Customs, then just order them all from Amazon in France or Germany. That's where I get my Yorkshire Tea and Fry's Chocolate Cream bars from.

(pen) I get Yorkshire Tea from Waitrose. Good stuff is that.

[Rosie] Waitrose? There’s posh.

(CdM) Not really. Not ridiculously expensive either. Nicer people than the Co-op.

(CdM) and wider aisles. Better loos too.

The radio in the car on the way to work told me that there are signs that the pandemic may be slowing down. I then get into the office, open my inbox, and reel at the number of students off with COVID. It's almost as if... the media... has some kind of interest... in getting people... to worry about something else...

[nights] It may well be slowing down, but only after it got up to a fairly high speed to begin with.

Oh FFS. Vax-refusing neighbour over the road was ill last week but won't even take a home test - she's convinced there's something on the cotton swabs. There's no helping some people.

(pen) What's her name? Mrs Djokovic?

Well, back to doing some classes online, which pleases absolutely nobody.

[nights] Least of all those of us who have to teach the bloody things