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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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John Shammas

A body falling from the ceiling - and TWO dance numbers... The Hound of the Baskervilles at The Lowry, reviewed

Over the Christmas period, like so many others, I was unexpectedly confined to my own four walls upon being confronted with a positive lateral flow test.

After a sketchy day or two, the symptoms eased and to pass the remaining time in isolation my wife and I worked our way through a large cheese board and some overpriced crackers/chutney that was initially purchased for now-cancelled social gatherings at our house.

So instead of seeing friends in person, we formed a Covid-19 bubble with Benedict Cumberbtach and Martin Freeman and bulldozed our way through every episode of the BBC's Sherlock on iPlayer in some sort of wensleydale-induced fever dream.

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