I mean, Covid. I have been diagnosed as positive, and apart from the widely recorded symptom of a cough I think that its worst effect is that it messes with your head. Coherent thought seems to have become a thing of the past. The most worrying things about this is the fact that tomorrow I am signed up for a trial conversation class with a native Italian speaker. At the moment there is a degree of doubt over whether I can string together anything very sensible in English. I don’t want to postpone the experience because it has taken me a month to confirm the arrangement I have made.