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Mind your language

How ‘barley’ cropped up

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

‘Why can’t you write about something wholesome?’ asked my husband, in a flanking move. He was in a bad mood because his offer to come out of retirement to save the NHS had not so much been rebuffed as received with uneasy amusement.

It so happened that I had been rereading something that might fit the strange category of wholesomeness demanded.

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