They were books I'd had my eye on for a while, like cookbooks, thinking I'd learn to cook 2 months into this lockdown instead of right at the start. And I finally pulled the trigger on getting them, and now this. They won't even arrive for weeks, because they are specialist and Waterstones must order them.

(I can't believe your man who was maybe going to paint the house, it's mind-blowing, and you really do think "do you just not know what the government is saying? Or what a metre is? Or are you one of those people who don't believe in lockdown and health precautions and lucky me, I got to meet you?" Incredible.)