Tag: lockdown

• 1st Feb 2022

  Why being social 24/7 isn’t worth it.

  Every day we do not have to be social. Every day we do not need to force ourselves to be social because it is tiring. Each day, with different people we put on different pretences, pretending to be someone different. And it’s draining. We all do it and it’s normal — unfortunately it is a […]
• 5th Aug 2021

  No more lockdown (hopefully)!

  What are your plans for the next few months? As we move out of lockdown (how many times have I said this on my blog over the last two years??) and as everything starts to open up again (and hopefully for good), what do you plan to do? Are you returning full-time to work, study? […]
• 5th Jan 2021

  Here we go again

  Here we go again… England National Lockdown Round 3! Oh, the excitement. I’m sure all of you are feeling a whole mix of different emotions towards the announcement made last night at 8pm by our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson: outraged, annoyed, deflated, or truly just pissed off. Me too. But what can we do to […]
• 16th Jul 2020

  Life After Lockdown

  I thought I’d share with you a short extract from something I had submitted for a competition run by NCS. I completed the NCS programme last summer and have stayed in touch with the organisation and decided to enter into this competition in the middle of May, right in the middle of quarantine (in the […]