Mediterranean Holiday

Tom was tired and bored. Overdose of Netflix, overdose of Call of Duty, overdose of Facebook...

He tried to get his wife in the mood for sex, but she was hopelessly "exhausted" again. He ended up, as too often, frustratedly watching some porn on Amazon Sex. He kept clicking through ads like a robot, from sales of billionaire mansions to cheap elephant underwear for male strippers. He wondered who bought any of these.

Suddenly, an ad for cheap flights to North Africa caught his fancy. Maybe Leticia would enjoy sex under the sun, in a place where the dire necessities of life after Brexit didn't impose such high levels of stress upon their couple life.

He talked it up for a few days, and she soon relented, even though money wasn't that plentiful. The risk that another strain of Covid might ground all British citizens again was too much, and they really ought to get some sun in, she said.