The last few weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster. The pandemic is starting to bite now. At the beginning of the month I found out I’d lost some steady and thoroughly enjoyable work in the form of my Yorkshire Life column. Then several live, paid gigs were cancelled. All the cancellations happened in a very short space of time and left me a bit lost. Although YL wasn’t great pay, it was steady income, and the other gigs were in the diary, making up my income for the year. In all I think, so far, my loss of earnings is around a quarter of a year’s income. I’m ok, though, I managed to increase work in other places to patch up the holes, I took on more editing and mentoring, which was, luckily available at the right time. It was one of…