Windfall

Lockdown is causing internet scam artists to go into overdrive, based on the number of attempts I’m receiving. Today the ‘lawyer of a deceased client’ in Burkina Faso offered me USD 17.5 million as his client had died without a next of kin and that I was being approached as someone with the same surname. You see, Harris is a common surname in Burkina Faso.

In the evening a thwarted trip to the post office as collection times are all skewed and not as written on the card shoved through the door. Instead of getting frustrated, I treated the walk as part of the nightly amble, even though the depot is on an industrial estate. Nearby is Coleridge Recreation Ground, which if I’ve ever been inside, was eons ago. It’s not Cambridge’s most stunning patch of greenery but I found a bench and spotted a pleasing wildflower area. Elizabeth, tantalisingly only a few streets away but who I haven’t seen since my previous visit last August, told me they’re ‘trialling the non-use of pesticides.’ Trial away, it doesn’t sound like pesticides in a park should be the default.

This sculpture (is it appropriate to call it that?) adorns the car park of Savills ‘East of England property specialists’. I had to bob in and take a picture as I passed, as it looked fairly conspicuous.