Picture the scene. You tiptoed abroad for a short break somewhere hot and sunny over Christmas and new year only to find yourself “stranded” thanks to flight cancellations, quarantine and so on. Far from feeling trapped, you are loving the freedom of being isolated in a far-flung idyll with more space and freedom than you ever dreamt of under lockdown in the UK. Meanwhile, you have carried on working seamlessly via Zoom. Somehow the sordid struggle to put food on the table while keeping the roof intact seems less brutal when viewed from the perspective of a palm-fringed beachside villa.
Better still, none of your colleagues has twigged. Except that they have, but are pretending they haven’t because they are, er, in the same position,
