It is not just loved ones I miss, but the joy of hanging out with casual friends | Zoe Williams
What unites golf, fishing, tennis, shopping and going for coffee? The activities are pretty unimportant – but they are a perfect excuse to spend time with others
by Zoe Williams
May 15, 2020
3 minutes
Mr Z and I spent the first couple of hours of a lockdown morning exactly as our enemies would imagine, with him making me guess George Orwell’s measure of a perfect pub.
“Fags. People smoking fags,” I responded immediately. “It should sell tobacco as well as cigarettes, and it also sells aspirin and stamps, and is obliging about letting you use the telephone,” he corrected. I started moaning, because that is four criteria, not one, and these are not terms on which any decent person would run a
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