For working parents, the reopening of schools does not mean a return to normality

In the latest of his reflections on place and pathway, Will Gore collects his children from school and wonders how a return to the office can ever be possible

A return to the classroom... for two days a week (PA)

As a principle for living, focusing on the positives isn’t a bad place to start. But it isn’t always easy – especially not in the past few months.

For all that I try to remind myself that I’m lucky to have a garden, and that I’ve taken joy in endlessly baking bread, and that less travelling has meant more time spent with the kids, the frustrations of lockdown remain hard to shake.

And even as restrictions begin to ease, I seem to have more moments of gloom than of optimism.