2020: The year of cancelled things
2020 truly was the year of cancelled things. Even when coronavirus was starting to take hold and things were starting to get closed down, who…
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Coronavirus: Looking back on a year of lockdowns and restrictions
There seems to be so much to say about coronavirus. I wrote last week about the general madness and frustration of 2020. Today I want…
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Coronavirus: How did we get here?
Every now and then, even now, I just stop for a second and wonder how the hell did we get here? I look at the…
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How lockdown 2 is treating us
Well, here we are nearly two weeks in lockdown 2 – the second English national lockdown. How is it treating you? Does it feel the…
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Coronavirus, lockdown and endless cancellations
If 2020 has taught us one thing (well, it’s taught us many… ), it’s that there’s not much point in making plans. Because coronavirus, the…
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Back to school, back to normal?
It’s already been three weeks since my kids went back to school. Although they were looking forward to a bit of normality after six months…
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Will GCSE and A Level results 2020 mean anything?
In just a few days, hundreds of thousands of students will get their A Level results. A week later, around 700,000 young people, including my…
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Really missing parkrun
The last parkrun before lockdown took place on 14th March. And we still don’t know when the next one will be. I’ve missed it all…
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Coronavirus, economy and post-lockdown shopping
As lockdown has eased over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk of the economy. And for every person that says…
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Lockdown: Life in the village
We live in a ‘semi-rural location’ in Gloucestershire – a village reasonably close to a town. The village has a high proportion of residents in…
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Lockdown: Missing the isolation
I’ve spent the last six and a bit years working for myself at home. After 15 years with the banter of a busy office, I…
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Has lockdown ended?
Every week, I give an update on how many weeks into lockdown we are. Six weeks, nine weeks, 11 weeks… But lockdown restrictions have eased…
