Terry Prone: Going back to ‘normal’ isn’t always right

Sometimes normal is sub-optimal. Sometimes normal needed a pandemic to prove just how bad it was.

Nigella Lawson annoyed viewers with her pronunciation of ‘microwave’. Picture: PA

DAY 68 

Standing in LIDL, I try to persuade one of their shelf loaders that they don’t have something they promised to have. He is being punctilious, showing me at arms length his phone so their catalogue can prove I’m imagining things. I’m not. I’m just in the wrong shop. I should be in Aldi.