After months of virtual house arrest, of Covid confinement, the moment has come. Expressed in quasi-military terms, I am facing “phase two” of the lockdown experience: return to base.

Phase one of the City’s work-from-home experience involved minimal attendance, and offices run by skeleton staff. But now, with the level of infection slowing and some semblance of normality creeping back, it is time for some of us to find our way back to the office, at least for a day a week. So it’s phase two. How does this feel?