• FOR those of us experiencing difficulties being locked down, screwed up, and otherwise constricted in these dark days, it is worth considering our extraordinary good fortune to be living in Camden.

We are all within minutes of the most beautiful parks and heathland anywhere in the country.

On a crisp morning walk with the dog in Regent’s Park, the euphoria of fresh air and socially distanced good humour is to be experienced in abundance.

Here it is possible to forget the dumb insolence of the maskless bustle confronting us in Aldi and Sainsbury’s, the chin strap penguins wearing their masks below their noses on the 214, the youth with his feet up on the back seat who is picking his nose and flicking the contents onto the window all the way from Angel to Camden Town.

Of course, this is low-level civil disobedience. While we Brits frantically strip the shelves of toilet roll, our American cousins are raiding the gun store.

It is a huge relief to know that the leadership of the free world is no longer in the hands of a psychopathic moron with a messiah complex.

A failed attempt to convince his flock to drink the disinfectant has, however, sent him into incandescent rage. Like Mrs Danvers he is now setting fire to the soft furnishings and burning down the house .

Let’s look forward to a happy and peaceful future. See you in the park.

JASPER FOX
Gloucester Crescent, NW1