Love in the time of lockdown

HEN you decide to move in together you have an element of confidence that you know what you’re letting yourself in for. You like their sense of humour, you know how they like their tea, whether they have good table manners and whether or not they wear teeny-tighty whities or billowing boxers. The things you didn’t know – such as they dream of immaculately ironed under crackers – soon become obvious and accepted as amusing quirks. After a while you become familiar with the finer details. You begin to wash each other’s smalls (or not so smalls),