The Year of Sitting Dangerously - Simon Barnes Butterwalk Sunday Times

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with a faint scent of fresh baked crust

Together they pinpoint the causes of this breakdown and offer practical advice on how to ‘reattach’ to sons and daughters

a drink beside you and start to read

but as a series of worlds

The Year of Sitting Dangerously - Simon Barnes Butterwalk Sunday TimesIn the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his plans had to be put on hold. Instead, he embarked on the only voyage of discovery that was still open to him. He walked to a folding chair at the bottom of his garden, and sat down. His itinerary: to sit in that very same spot every day for a year and to see and hear what happened all around him. It would be a stationary garden safari; his