Lauren is 14, and she wears a mask. Her mum believes in the disease, but not Big Pharma or, indeed, Health Canada backed up by the Centers for Disease Control and the US Food and Drug Administration.

I think Lauren is a little too young and a lot too biddable to just go get herself jabbed whatever her mum says.

Another huge bag of cat litter today. I just realized that I have stopped counting how many large or significant whatevers have gone by since Edmund died, though I don’t think the tenth of any month will ever pass without a pang.