We walked to the Mile End Hospital as it’s only a street away. The Alderney Street cemetery door was open, very unusually, as if making itself available for new takers. I don’t think I have ever experienced such burning heat, certainly in Britain, but even in Marrakesh and Florida, so we crept along the pavement as close to the wall as we could. I felt you could have fried an egg on my head.

Anyway, the nurses were charming and reassuring, administered some special elixir, so our anxieties, but not the COVID, are now over. Thank you all for your concern !