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On love, and love after lockdown

The devastating loss of our friend, colleague and ADCS past president Dave Hill had a huge impact on our sector last week, and on the many of us who knew, loved and admired him.

Dave always was a hard act to follow - whether you spoke after him in a meeting, followed him into a job or exchanged anecdotes and gossip with him in the bar at the ADCS Annual Conference - he was brilliant at all of it. The moving tribute of publishing Dave’s 2016 blog What’s love got to do with it? last week was another example. The vague collection of dull thoughts that were bouncing around in my head to share with you this week were immediately rendered irrelevant and insignificant. How do you follow that blog?

The only answer was to go with Dave’s flow and to look forward – as he always did. There is a member of my household (nameless to spare her embarrassment) who is addicted to an American reality series called “Love After Lock Up”. Residing in the outer tundra of satellite channels, it follows the fate of relationships forged by correspondence with prisoners, on their release. Frankly, it’s unlikely to be troubling the BAFTA judges, but its premise is interesting to consider in the context of Dave’s treatise on love and our current situation. To paraphrase, what happens to “Love After Lockdown”?

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