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I’m just back from my first trip to Australia since COVID. Airlines are still not operating the kangaroo route at full capacity and tickets are eye-wateringly expensive. I booked with Lufthansa, one of the few airlines that had continued to fly to and from Australia the whole way through. The…

I had a moment in the Enoch Centre: I couldn’t get out. I’d gone in to buy a diffuser from The Body Shop, to mask the smell of cooking wafting up from below. My downstairs neighbour’s tiny yapper has meat cooked for him, and the smell rising through the floorboards…

Returning through Central Station on Saturday afternoon, heading home after an 11-mile walk with a group of women I’d met through Facebook, I was stopped short by the sound of a piano. Public pianos have become a feature of stations and shopping malls, an invitation to contribute to street life…

On the first day of my first post-COVID holiday, on a Greek island, I got the post-COVID ‘super cold’. I’d booked the trip nine months earlier, and it was to be my first overseas trip in over two years, my second beach holiday ever. I did not grow up with…