You're in isolation with a loved one. Your sex life is getting stale and you're getting on each other's nerves. The solution? Easy peasy! It's adult role play. In this example it's the astronomer and car worker. I'm warning you at the start in case you are an astronomer and car worker so you can skip this and go onto the next one.
What sort of setting do you need? Simple. A hall, a bedroom, a darkroom and stairs. Stairs are a plus but could prove to be distracting. If you don't have one, don't construct a staircase. You may have plenty of time, but that would be better spent learning the script.
It's always good to have a back-up plan and when my career as a masseur failed to get off the ground I was ready to suggest that I would give photography a go. Again, my hopes were dashed when it turned out that you couldn't get a job at Playboy straight from school even if you were willing to provide your own Kodak Instamatic.
Yet that's the only prop you need for a first-class photography role play. And a tripod. And a roll of film. And a chess set.
Archibald Bishop: "Good morning madam. Could I have a few words with the man of the house?"
Tamara Knight: "There is no 'man of the house'. I live alone."
Archibald Bishop: "I'm extremely surprised to hear that."
Tamara Knight: "What can I do for you?"
Archibald Bishop: "It's a bit embarrassing really. I think it will be best if I introduce myself. I'm Archibald Bishop."
Tamara Knight: "But no need to be embarrassed Archibald. You have a fairly comical name, but I've heard worse."
Archibald Bishop: "I'm not embarrassed about my name."
Tamara Knight: "Good for you. I'm Tamara Knight.
Archibald Bishop: "Like the character Lady Tamara Knight in that brilliant story "The Greatest Knight Of Your Life!"
Tamara Knight: "Personally I thought the Hugh Juter character was treated very unsympathetically. In my opinion it was a load of cobblers."
Archibald Bishop: "No, you must be mixing it up with the sequel where Lady Tamara Knight has a chance encounter with a group of shoemakers."
Tamara Knight: "I mean that the writer if you can call him that was oblivious to the plight of a gay knight in Medieval times."
Archibald Bishop: "I have no idea. I couldn't read either of them. I'm not from Latvia so I don't know Latin."
Tamara Knight: "That's very strange. You seem to know a lot about the subject."
Archibald Bishop: "Well you know how it is. I work at the car factory. The lads are always banging on about Latin and Greek literature. I'm looking forward to reading it in English when it comes out in paperback."
Tamara Knight: "I doubt it ever will. Some of the characterisation is weak but it has a very complex plot. Very intricate. Like chess."
Archibald Bishop: Which is a rather strange co-incidence. We both have chess related names."
Tamara Knight: "Yes, you said you were Archibald Prawn!"
Archibald Bishop: "Bishop"
Tamara Knight: "Of course, Bishop. Prawn would be embarrassing."
Archibald Bishop: "True. And let me say, you have a splendid chest."
Tamara Knight: "How dare you! I hardly know you and you start making sexist breast related comments."
Archibald Bishop: "It came out wrong. I was trying to say splendid chess set. The one on your hall table over there."
Tamara Knight: "Of course, now where were we?"
Archibald Bishop: "I was about to say that I'm your neighbour from the house that backs onto yours. I was wondering if you have a telescope."
Tamara Knight: "A bizarre request. Most of the neighbours who come round looking for something ask for a cup of sugar."
Archibald Bishop: "I don't want to borrow your telescope."
Tamara Knight: "I'll fetch the sugar then."
Archibald Bishop: "I don't want to borrow a cup of sugar either."
Tamara Knight: "Well, if you don't want to borrow a telescope or a cup of sugar, what do you want to borrow?"
Archibald Bishop: "I don't want to borrow anything. I believe that someone is spying on me using a telescope."
Tamara Knight: "And why would anybody want to do that?"
Archibald Bishop: "I thought you might be able to give me the answer."
Tamara Knight: "You think it's me who's spying on you?"
Archibald Bishop: "If you're the only one in the house, then yes."
Tamara Knight: "Do I look remotely like Patrick Moore?"
(The late English amateur TV astronomer whose six-inch refractor was used strictly for its original design purpose.)
Archibald Bishop: "England's heroic 1966 World Cup winning captain?"
Tamara Knight: "That's Bobby. Patrick is an amateur astronomer. He hosts The Sky at Night."
Archibald Bishop: "I wouldn't know, I work nights and we're not allowed a TV."
Tamara Knight: "Of course. You need to focus on your work."
Archibald Bishop: "I was going to say that it would keep the men awake."
Tamara Knight: "He would. He's very animated."
Archibald Bishop: "Yes, cartoons are so loud."
Tamara Knight: "But Patrick's a real man."
Archibald Bishop: "I'll take your word on that. Now can I come upstairs and have a root around?"