Endeavour dubbed

I was feeling nostalgic and searched out - to my surprise - Endeavour on our Italian Prime subscription. Horror of horrors, it was only available dubbed - brilliantly nonetheless- in Italian.

It’s a strange experience to watch something so quintessentially Oxford presented in another language. I found I concentrated more on the actors’ faces: indeed they seemed more actorly, less natural.

The nostalgia stayed all the same for that.

Sometimes the absence of those who were present so long finds it’s way of making itself viscerally felt in the most roundabout ways.

My mum, I mean.

The pull of home.

The sudden dark evenings and that sense of ‘how am I going to get through this again’

The perma- poly- accumulating crisis that is the live we live now.