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The farmers' demonstration was best summed up in two images: real tractors being driven by farmers around Parliament Square, and beside them a collection of toy tractors being peddled around by their children.

When the door opened, the dog, Belle, sniffed politely before trotting deeper into the house, neon-green-painted nails flashing, to pause briefly beside her owner: Eric Vetro, perhaps the leading vocal teacher and trainer of bold-faced names on stage and screen, including several of the leads in the upcoming film adaptation of “Wicked.”

As Yulia Navalnaya was whisked away by police, for security, the crowd gathered beside a memorial for those killed in Ukraine - chatting quietly and singing along with a young man playing guitar.

But thanks to Anne Rice, Louis or the red wine I was drinking out of a huge plastic tumbler at the time, it ended up being exactly what I needed, exactly when I needed it and I grabbed onto that hope again both figuratively and literally, as it was loudly snoring on the couch beside me.

I can know what it’s like for me to see a red wheelbarrow, as in William Carlos Williams’ famous poem in which, “so much depends/upon//a red wheel/barrow//glazed with rain/water//beside the white/chickens.”