“Time present and time past
Are perhaps both contained in time future,
And time future is contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.”

— T S Eliot, from Burnt Norton

So, one day my friend Jacqui found some didgeridoo players and invited them for dinner.

I should probably back up a little.

In 1995 I lived and worked In Zurich and my friend and colleague Claire shared a house with a fellow biologist, Dr Jacqui Shykoff, a native of Canada who had completed her PhD at the University of Basel and now worked at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) studying plant fungal diseases.

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