'At night we served her dinner on a tray left outside her room. When she was finished, she dropped the plates and cups into a tub I’d filled with hot soapy water and a splash of bleach.'
My house is besieged by pushy strangers, jostling on my side path, banging on my screen door.Two of them have pushed their way into the hallway and they’re thrusting legal forms at me. I kick open the door with my foot and start pushing them out, yelling go away, go away, but then I realise there are more of them in the backyard, rattling the bolt on the shed.
The customs officials had not given my daughter much information about how to self-isolate, but we’d gone looking and learned quite a lot. We knew we couldn’t sit next to her on the couch and comfort her about the six horrible hours she spent in Heathrow’s agitated, coughing crowds. We had to treat her as if she was already infectious.
When I waved goodbye to her at the beginning of January, the bushfires were raging and I was glad she was going to a cool, damp place. We had to wargame the use of the one bathroom and toilet we all shared. I cut yesterday’s newspaper into squares so anyone who used the loo could spray and wipe it down, crumpling the paper into a lined and lidded bin.
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