I thought perhaps this one might be to wish her granddaughter a happy birthday.
Little wonder that my mother was sending me a stream of concerned messages, including a voice note. I haven’t looked up a thesaurus for these words, yeah ok for the last one I did, but the rest are adjectives gleaned from reading newspapers, social media platforms and WhatsApp forwards on the pandemic. Apocalyptic, unimaginable, impossible, preposterous, dystopian, anti-utopia… Illustration credit: Chad Crowe