As 2020 ended, I welcomed the new year as the beginning of the return to something approaching normality. It was a completely irrational belief but I know I was not alone in this. So why did I and so many others look to 2021 as a new dawn? And how can we survive the disappointment of this new year and stay positive over the Winter months until we can finally start to resume our normal lives?
Read MoreAfter 6 months of weirdness we have finally arrived at the end of the Summer That Wasn’t. We are being told to wear masks everywhere, track wherever we go and avoid physical contact with others, and there’s no sign of a new normal, let alone a light at the end of the Covid tunnel.
Read MoreThe first three months of lockdown have been an emotional rollercoaster. Initially lockdown was exciting, before morphing into something scarier, as people people started dying and we really saw the impact of Covid-19 on our society. Now, three months late, we are right in the middle of what I would argue is the most difficult part of this pandemic, where we know that our lives are being changed forever, but we still can’t see what the end result will look like.
Read MoreThere seem to be a lot of birthdays in April and May, and lockdown means that we are no longer able to celebrate them as we would like. Therefore I’ve taken it upon myself to bake cakes for all those people stuck inside, and use my daily exercise allowance to courier them by bicycle to doorsteps around London. During my baking missions I have learned a few things about what is truly important to me, some of which may be useful as lockdown finally starts to ease.
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