Thursday 20th May 2021

Many in their loveliness claim to find virtue and goodness in that thing that must never be mentioned – ‘l..kd..wn’. I’m not one of them. There are ordinary household sprays that used to be anti-bacterial and suddenly became 99.9% anti-viral too. What about that 0.1% missing though? Can we risk it? They were intended as front-line armoury against viral attack, one of the many orthodoxies of our agony that turned out to be wrong. I never used them before but needless to say was among the first to plunge in. As you know, I’ve always been dead against bacteria and viruses in any case.  In the event,  I’ve mainly been virally spraying after the cleaner has been – just in case she’s coated everything in virus. Then, the other day, I had a brain wave at the sink. The dish cloth smelling first thing in the morning has plagued me for years. I’ve tried boiling it but nothing works. It’s back smelling in no time. In the end the only hope was to replace. My sudden vision was to spray it last thing at night with the anti-viral spray. Miracle. In the morning, not smelling. I’ve had a cloth going for almost three weeks on this basis. Incredible. I’ve also got a little bowl beside the sink where the scouring sponge and saucepan cleaner sit. That gets rank too. But not when blitzed with viral spray. With the cloth, I thought to experiment whether it makes a difference if only sprayed on one side not both. That’s the next stage, although I do doubt that mentally I will be up to it.