Yeah, The Back End Of 2021 Does Feel A Bit Like This

[poliphilo]

I dreamed I was at a party. It was being held in the nurses quarters of a hospital and had an eve of destruction vibe to it and a girl I went out with briefly fifty years ago was flirting with me and I was kissing her through her mask (for these were covid times) and fancying my chances when my mother called from the next room and I went in and found it was being over-run by large rats who had knocked over the lamp and were chewing up the carpet and the furniture. I started grabbing them by handfuls and stuffing out through the holes they'd entered by but they resisted and squirmed and clung so tightly to my wooly jumper that I found I was inadvertently pulling them apart as I tried to get them to let go....