Suffering in silence

I GOT A call from a mate who said, with all the issues about now, he was going to ring one mate a night to simply ask, “How’s things?” and it was my turn. We had not spoken for some time and while we were both busy and coping (a personal observation of course and subject to outsider comment), I told him I thought it was a terrific idea and was he happy for me to push it a bit.

I explained that each Christmas I used to ring a few mates and ask how they had been