The New Year is already well-established and we are told that we must live with Covid. I find it difficult to credit that my granddaughter is now six and is an enthusiastic school student with her Prep year completed mostly in front of a screen. Hasn’t seemed to bother her although she did tell me that she had had ‘two birthdays in lockdown’.  

Our family Christmas is now just a memory but it was most enjoyable with lots of unwrapping of excellent and thoughtful presents followed later by a beautiful shared meal. Crab cakes and jerk patties, roast stuffed goose, puffed sweetcorn pudding, an enormous pudding and a trifle as well…