Bursting the bubble

WE seem to be approaching the consequences phase of our current plague. Not least for one of my neighbours, who was recently hauled off in an ambulance after having had a suspected stroke.

I had been stalking grey squirrels in the depth of the woods – we have had an explosion of the little bleeders – when I received a call from a distressed lady. Blue lights were flashing outside her house but they could not get in to help Peter next door, who had collapsed just after