Fragment 2: Isolation Drills - The Forest and the Angel
Posted in The Fragments on 23rd October 2022
I ventured out into the wider world in August 2020 for the first time in four months. It felt daring, a little foolish and somewhat risky - but after months of watching the numbers, managing expectations and trying to bolster my flagging mental well-being, the balance felt right. This fragment...
Fragment 1: The Chingford Conspiracy Bin
Posted in The Fragments on 16th October 2022
By the middle of 2021, life felt like it was returning to normal. At least, a strangely attenuated existence which we were encouraged to regard as the 'new normal'. We took the opportunity to get away to London, to stay in a nice hotel which was heavily discounted, and to...
The Fragments
Posted in The Fragments on 16th October 2022
When I walked dejectedly out of my office on 12th March 2020, I didn't realise that both personal and global change was afoot. We were approaching the end of a two-week-long regulatory inspection which hadn't gone well - there was a sense of growing unease, and leaders who wanted to...