The vast amount of memes, jokes and links that have been sent around in 2020 have mainly slipped right by me, as all the things I have had to do this year has expanded, and then expanded again.

The necessary has edged out all those slow moments when I might have casually opened my socials and clicked a link for a brief moment of amusement.

Between my coronavirus-centric work, online learning for my kids, and the inevitable family administration that comes from a world where the rules are permanently shifting, means that now every spare five minutes is an opportunity to chip away at my inbox or pay a bill.

So it was an unusual moment for this strange year when I clicked on a YouTube video the other day to watch The Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir sing The Pretenders song ‘I’ll Stand by You’.