Edel Coffey: a heightened state of 'busyness' after Covid

"I don’t know about you but I’d like to request an inquiry into what happened to the first four months of 2022 ... the year is nearly halfway over"

Edel Coffey: "Tasks seem to propagate, Tetris-like, one after the other"

Tomorrow is the beginning of May. The fifth month of the year. Fifth! I don’t know about you, but I’d like to request an inquiry into what happened to the first four months of 2022. If we were rounding things up, you could even go so far as to say that the year is nearly half way over.

The children have a mere eight weeks of school left before the summer holidays. Surely, having lost two years to the pandemic, time should be moving at a more leisurely, accommodating pace, pottering along in order to allow us to ease ourselves back into life as we once knew it, rather than this breakneck, water park slide pace at which we seem to have re-entered the world.