2020, what were you??!!!
A collage of the few photos I have from 2020. Top: Seeing Come From Away as a 22nd b'day present to myself was such a beautiful theatre experience. Bottom Left: My Xmas tree in black and white sort of sums up the tone of 2020 don't you think? Bottom Right: One of many creative milestones I achieved whilst trying not to go crazy in lockdown. As a new year begins, it's customary for a lot of people to write some long paragraph about how the year gone by had tested them, or blessed them, or ended up being their 'best year yet'. In the case of 2020, you would need a book the size of an Oxford English dictionary to sum up all the ways the year we just finished emulated a ginormous dumpster fire. Usually I would do a countdown on New Year’s Eve writing about all the ways I’ve grown and experienced new things in a year that had typical ups and downs, but doing that after the woefulness of 2020 just feels utterly disingenuous. I could talk about how I learnt a new s...