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Long life

Here I am on Twelfth Night with nothing but benevolence to look back on

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

10 January 2015

9:00 AM

For the past two and a half years my brother John has been living next door to me in the Northamptonshire countryside. We have both been most of the time alone in our separate houses, 25 yards apart, and, whenever I’ve been there, I have shared at least one meal a day with him.

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