Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 1

Wow, it's been a year since I started doing these!*

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When DID Lockdown start in the UK? Oddly, that's not an easy question to answer. I found this article: When did lockdown begin in the UK?, and the answer is both the 16th and the 23rd of March. The 16th is when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease. (My 15 year old: 'Matt Hancock is just a meme!') But the 23rd was when Boris told the country that 'You MUST stay at home' and closed businesses and so on.

It's interesting to think back to a year ago... We knew we had to self-isolate for 14 days, but figured life might carry on more or less as normal around us, and I thought I'd get the time off work (HA!). We still don't know if Darcy & the Eldest actually had covid or not, since tests were impossible to get hold of back then.

And now, working from home is the norm (and I was lucky that this was possible) and we have home testing kits sitting on a shelf inside the front door. Half the family have had their 1st shot (as in Darcy's family - those who are elderly or working for the NHS, ditto my parents) and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not just metaphorically - quite literally too, what with the increase in daylight and the lovely sunshine we've been having the past few days.

Anyway I have saved up loads of stuff, so will put all the rest under the cut. :)

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*I went back & checked because I was only up to 364, and turns out I have two Day 106. Ah well. I don't THINK I have the energy to update them all.

Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 1

Wow, it's been a year since I started doing these!*

When DID Lockdown start in the UK? Oddly, that's not an easy question to answer. I found this article: When did lockdown begin in the UK?, and the answer is both the 16th and the 23rd of March. The 16th is when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease. (My 15 year old: 'Matt Hancock is just a meme!') But the 23rd was when Boris told the country that 'You MUST stay at home' and closed businesses and so on.

It's interesting to think back to a year ago... We knew we had to self-isolate for 14 days, but figured life might carry on more or less as normal around us, and I thought I'd get the time off work (HA!). We still don't know if Darcy & the Eldest actually had covid or not, since tests were impossible to get hold of back then.

And now, working from home is the norm (and I was lucky that this was possible) and we have home testing kits sitting on a shelf inside the front door. Half the family have had their 1st shot (as in Darcy's family - those who are elderly or working for the NHS, ditto my parents) and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not just metaphorically - quite literally too, what with the increase in daylight and the lovely sunshine we've been having the past few days.

Anyway I have saved up loads of stuff, so will put all the rest under the cut. :)

( Read more... )

*I went back & checked because I was only up to 364, and turns out I have two Day 106. Ah well. I don't THINK I have the energy to update them all.