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Hot dogs and Bud beer at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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ho else was going to write that great novel during lockdown? Or reorganise the entire house? Perhaps you were going to make the most of the time at home to finally learn a new language? If you’re like me, you started the recent period of forced isolation full of good intentions, but the only thing you actually got accomplished was keeping the kids fed, washed and relatively up-to-date on their multiplication tables. But aside from those thwarted ideas of self-improvement (as I discovered, when I said “if only I had the time to tidy everything thoroughly”, it wasn’t actually time that I was lacking…), the
one major thing that we have all had to give up is any dream we had for a long, culturally-exotic holiday in a country far away. If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us anything, it’s that as well as those eye-opening, soul-boosting experiences, far-flung international trips also bring with them a fair number of problems. And anyway, even if I didn’t care about their impact on the planet, the borders are closed now, for who knows how long. As it turns out, though, the virus has also taught us to be resourceful, to make do with what we have lying around the house, and to see the positives in every situation. Let’s not forget that in the age of the internet we
