Having said how grateful I was to the London Library during lockdown, I feel that I should add the services of our local bread shop Breid, which at a crucial moment when we were not going out at all, generously said that they would deliver bread to our front gate, if necessary by throwing the bread over it, only providing I paid them retrospectively which I now have. How to make friends and a long lasting sense of gratitude for another form of essential sustenance:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
To their credit, Rinkoff, much closer by, has been delivering bread to us, though it’s not part of their usual service. But glad to know Breid delivers too – and that it is still going in its new arch.