Food for thought

Patrick Galbraith rues our hateful attitude to grey squirrels

I HAVE NO DOUBT SOME PEOPLE really thrive on working from home but for the most part, I’m never very convinced it’s productive. Whenever I “WFH”, I usually end up training my spaniel, cooking complicated things with the slow cooker, or go out to the Nag’s Head, where old Irishmen sit at the bar while watching racing on a small telly. Last week, on a cold Tuesday morning, I was at the local junk shop having a look at a chair while I should have been at home writing. I noticed, as I was trying to decide whether it would be worth getting it reupholstered, that the only other customer in the shop was (judging by the words on his polo shirt) a professional pest controller. With limited enthusiasm for…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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