“Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?"

Diary of the last 23 hours

5.05pm yesterday

Watching the latest plague news and Dr Caroline McElnay is walking us back through Patient D’s previous 100 hours of coffee, gateau and shopping in the Heart of the City. 

She gets to Smith and Caughey and pronounces it Cooey, sort of like cooee-Mr-Shifter from the ancient TV ad with the chimpanzees. For a moment it takes my mind off the …