He rushes in every day, greeting the staff and other children, and is busy with a variety of activities until morning tea time. He helps pack up the tables that are needed for morning tea and wipes them over before going to wash his hands. Morning tea comes on a trolley and Almeido happily places platters of fresh and dried fruit and individual bowls on each table.

The timetable for May-December 2022 reveals a service partway back to its pre-COVID level.

The couple called each other cutesy pet names that disgusted everyone else.

I’ve been kind’ve zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music.