As we try and get used to our new lives in lockdown, there's just one question anyone's asking.

How long will this last?

Ideally we'd have it that we go back to quarantining individual cases and everyone else just walking around a lot less.

Of course how long is really a question of what works of what needs to happen for life to return to normal,

or at least something very like normal.

I think there's no normal to the vaccine.

We will be in a holding pattern.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm David Aronovich. Today, how do we get out at the lockdown? May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride.

So you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

Trains, now on Uber.

Tees and sees apply.

Check the Uber app. I am at the moment talking to you from underneath my eldest son's duvet at the far end of the house to try to get the right sound quality.

Tom Whipple is science editor at the Times.

I've been in the downstairs Lou, but that was too close in proximity to my baby son who was screaming.

He's at home and he's been getting used to working in weird ways. I'm now at the other end of the house and the only peril here is that we live next door to

mandolin players and I can slightly hear them coming through.

So if there's some nice jaunty music that's why.

We've had to take the dog out for her approved half hour walk and I have a horrible suspicion that our

neighbors are taking up the bassoon. So let's see.

Let's talk about the first place which this started in because you see looking at

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