Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There’s a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing in the writhing waters, leaving this week’s Sunday Papers unfinished; or pile up smaller stones into a rudimentary foothold – an alteration of the river’s flow that will surely lead to calamity miles downstream in the Humber Estuary. Urgency is added by the arrival of swarms of flies.
I chickened out and turned back in the end, but not before taking a lovely photo. Anyway, here are some things to read.
