This evening I had a leaving do. Didn’t think it would be possible in a Covid world but about 40 of us had drinks and hugs in a central London pub. It was a lovely send off – people said and wrote nice things and I got a bit drunk.
Even better was at 11pm my son came to drive me home . That really is the end of BBC leaving dos now. From next week I will be a Euronews employee!
Thrown to (the) Lyon 