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Life under Lockdown – The Hidden Casualty
Something else that we need to think about, I think. The Hidden Casualty by Something to Say An expected 20,000 more cancer patients will die in the UK over the next year because of lack of treatment during lockdown, according to the…
Life under Lockdown – The Holiday Part 2
Yes – they’re still there. What We Did on Our Holidays – Part 2 by 67 and Stopped Counting Some of you may have seen my previous blog about being in total lockdown in Mallorca after mis-timing our annual March visit to the island. It…
Life under Lockdown – The Funeral Celebrant
A moving post about something that none of us likes to think about – I think perhaps it’s time to think about it. The Memory Lives Forever by The Thanatologist I have been a civil funeral celebrant for five years, and I love my job. ‘Isn’t…
Life under Lockdown – The Retired Artist
Welcome to another Guest Blog A Perfect Day in Lockdown by Jane Fielder I am 70 and very fortunate. I have good health, an interesting husband, a wonderful garden – and a playground of a house full of exciting projects and ideas all…
Life under Lockdown – The Supermarket Worker
Guest blog number three. Mixed Feelings by Long Tall Bob On 23rd March 2020 my job description went from ‘ unskilled shelf-stacker ’ to ‘ key worker feeding the nation’ . At time of writing we are five weeks into the UK’s coronavirus…
Life under Lockdown – The Single Mum Working From Home
Guest blog number two. Working from Home as a Single Mum in Israel – by Paula Drakes-Cohen In the beginning, I thought that news about the coronavirus was being hyped up. Even though I am considered high risk (I have asthma), I really…
Life under Lockdown – The Holiday
Here’s my first Guest Blogger – there will be more! What We Did on Our Holidays – by 67 and Stopped Counting Like everyone else at the moment we are in a state of uncertainty in these aptly named uncertain times – except that we are on…
No Mow May
I won’t be cutting my grass for the next few weeks. Have you heard of No Mow May? I heard about it for the first time last year, but unfortunately I only heard about it on 29th May. Shame. I vowed to do better this year! The idea is that…
Guest Blogging – I Need YOU!
If you’re reading this, I want to hear from YOU. Fancy writing a guest blog for me? We’re living in very peculiar times. All our lives are different now, whether we’re working longer and harder than ever before, or stuck at home with not…
How are you Sleeping?
Not being able to sleep is a common theme these days. I’m not great at the whole sleeping malarkey at the best of times. My ‘normal’ sleep is from about 11pm to 5am – anything more than that feels like a lie-in. But I can drop off on the…
My Feet Hurt
Back in the olden days, when life was normal, just over a month ago, I was a kitchen designer for a major DIY chain in the UK. We have to wear steel toe cap boots on the shop floor. They’re not very comfy at the best of times, but I spent…
Exit Strategy
We all need hope at times like this. But false hope is worse than no hope at all, and that seems to be what the BBC was reporting yesterday. Here’s the news article that’s got me annoyed – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52329659 . The…
