SL was a COVID19 super-spreader. She reached out to hug everyone that we met as we wandered the quiet lockdown streets of Edinburgh.

Over the course of our walk, SL told me that the acclaimed artist MO was working with RL on an exhibit at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). I was delighted to boast of my connection to MO. I astonished SL by telling here that MO and I were friends in France in the early 1980s when working as au pairs in Paris.

‘You could tell her that you’ve seen my patchwork quilt’ I said. ‘She’ll definitely remember that’.