London: Covid did strange things to friendships. Old friends, scattered across the world, suddenly reappeared on Zoom calls and WhatsApp groups, and resumed the intense discussions we once had in person. Mid-argument in one such discussion recently - the kind where you're both right, both exhausted - he suddenly stopped.
'Do you know what the luteal uglies are?' he asked, with the confidence of a man who had just drawn the winning card. I did not. It sounded like an unfortunate medieval family--the Luteal Uglies of Gloucestershire.
