Key to the door

Teaching in France, vaccinations, Locomotion Number One, Covid-by-the-Sea, four UK trips in six months, French theatre and film projects, model railway displays, book printing, promotion and sales, exercise and old age, Delta and Omicron, Darlington, Manchester and Nottingham, a change of career and re-connecting with the past - follow the modern adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, 58, throughout 2021 and into 2022, an English ex-pat living and working in France. Like the mythical key to the door of maturity in reaching the age of 21, we of Planet Earth should have been passing from one old state to the next new state with flying colours but we would, as usual, go into it expecting far too much and emerge from it having achieved far too little. It was a year of change for our world and a year of change for our reluctant hero.