It was over dinner that my housemate broached the controversial subject: ‘How would you guys feel if I got an Xbox?’
‘Oh I don’t know,’ I said, ‘I’ve heard they’ve put a lot of strain on people’s marriages during Covid.’
‘Well,’ she said dryly, ‘It’s a good job we’re not married then.’ And with that, the Xbox was duly purchased.
The sheer beauty of creation – an antidote to cynicism
“It all seems to happen at once,” someone said to me at church this morning, reflecting on the last couple …