I spent the 2020 lockdown on my own in a flat in a strange city, having just arrived at that city's Arts Centre as their artist in residence. Lou spent it in rather more challenging conditions - stuck at home with her parents, both of whom could drive anyone barmy. Lovely people, loving people, but to be stuck with them in a small house with no escape for weeks on end? Lou copes by making costumes for the local children, to wear on the weekly congratulatory claps to the NHS (an institution which, no doubt,would have preferred more funding to applause, but that's neither here nor there). It's a funny, touching, recognisable short story, that made me glad for the Arts Centre.