When summer finally arrived, I hopped in. But disaster struck. And then it started raining …
Two years ago my wife bought me a hammock for my birthday. It came with a steel stand that had to be put together, but this turned out to be a straightforward bit of assembly. Once it was up I imagined myself lying in the hammock all summer, taking work calls in a pretend desk voice.
But in those days the pandemic was still under way. All three of my sons lived at home, and in reality whenever I left the hammock for a few moments I would return to find one of them lying in it, sipping iced coffee with earbuds in.
