A Day Of My Life I'll Never Get Back
on the joys of household maintenance
IT’S 9TH APRIL 2025, and I feel like spending the day in bed. That's unusual for me. I have trouble sitting still at the best of times, and I don’t even like spending the day in bed when I’m ill. I can’t help thinking that contrary to all previous experience, if I absent myself from the action (what action?) even for twenty-four hours, I will miss some important event. There could be some rare opportunity that requires my urgent attention. At the very least I will fall hopelessly behind with my writing and my chores, leaving my subscribers bereft (I can dream) and my house a midden. So what can be the cause of this uncharacteristic listlessness?
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