After we visited the cemetery together, I knew my date would be my soulmate

I met my partner just over three years ago, in that brief moment between 2020 beginning and the pandemic arriving. 

We’d both opted to attend the same week-long creative writing course in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. It was housed in the former home of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, haunted by a small tabby cat known colloquially as ‘Ted’, with around 15 rooms for the various lost souls (read parents, managers, personal trainers)…