What fresh hell will greet us in 2021? Invasion by an alien species of vampiric sheep? – Telegraph.co.uk

In Ordinary Days which, reputedly, did exist in some vague era prior to the tsunami of grim headlines and chaos an article such as this would have had a cheery tone. We are approachingthe final weekend of the year, whentravel columns usuallylook forward to the coming 12 months with a smile and a song, imagining huge adventures and new horizons.

However, this being a time that Nostradamus took one look at and wrote simply whoa, good luck mate, we can't do that.

Will 2021 be a year for glimpsing unheralded corners of India, or lounging on tiny desert islands? I hope so. But if you are asking me questions like when and how then your guesses are as good as mine. I'm not even prepared to say what may be happening come Boxing Day.

Who knows what insanity will unfurl itself between now and then? Simultaneous eruptions of each of the world's volcanoes? Three asteroids on a collision course with Darlington? Invasion by an alien species of vampiric sheep? All of this?

And, if any of these situations occurred, would they make it into the headlines on News at Ten, or be shoved into the And Finally... bit?

This being the festive season, the best way forward is to treat everything as a party game. I suggest writing out lists of months, destinations, and disaster scenarios, cutting out the words, and drawing them from separate bags to create a hilarious and/or perhaps accurate view of the future for the amusement/terror of whichever friends and/or family members you are actually able to see this Christmas.

I'll go first. Let's see. In... February, we won't be able to visit... Montana because... Covid has somehow resurrected a load of dinosaur fossils, and a T-Rex is running amok in Walmart. That's plausible.

In March, the borders of... Poland will be shut due to... giant radioactive otters. Uh-huh.

Hang on, one more. In April, we'll be able to... travel widely again because... the health of the planet has improved. I know, the last one sounds so outlandish. But let's go with that.

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What fresh hell will greet us in 2021? Invasion by an alien species of vampiric sheep? - Telegraph.co.uk