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December 1st to January 31st Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 9. When things seemed to improve over the Summer of 2020 I had no idea that we’d be thrown back into a pretty awful situation again just a few months later. December 2020 December started with excitement for the build up to Christmas.…

October 1st to November 31st Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 8. I have to admit, when I first started writing these Diaries I never envisaged that I’d still be writing them by Autumn 2020. We had Disneyland Paris booked for Half term and were convinced that trip would go ahead. Well, we were…

August 1st to September 30th Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 7. This will cover August and September 2020 – for us, a period of relative respite in a pretty rubbish year! August 2020 The rates of Covid-19 in the UK were at their lowest during this time, and in hindsight it sort of…

June 1st to July 31st This is our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 6. This period of time was one of easing of restrictions and a reduction in spread of the disease. Certain school years could return to school and groups of up to 6 people were allowed to meet outdoors. Reception was one of the…

May 1st to May 31st Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 5. If you would like to read our previous Coronavirus Diaries, please check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. May 1st-9th The UK had, by this time, adjusted to a life in lockdown. It was normal to talk to…

April 14th to April 30th 2020 Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 4. By now, we were deep into lockdown and all adjusting to our ‘new normal’. We appreciated, very much, that our circumstances hadn’t changed hugely – considering I’m a stay at home Mum and Dave works from home on a permanent basis…

March 23rd to 13th April 2020 Welcome to our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 3. I think the week from the 23rd March, for me, will be the week I really ‘remember’ from lockdown. On the evening of March 23rd our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in a live televised address at 8pm (we sort of knew…

March 16th to March 22nd 2020 This is our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 2. Monday 16th March signified a step change in the Governments approach to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Daily Press Briefings It was the first of the ongoing daily Government Briefings from Downing Street (the official residence of the UK’s Prime Minister), set up…

January 2020 to March 15th 2020 So this will be our first instalment of our Coronavirus Diaries – Part 1, January 2020 to March 15th 2020. It’ll detail our experiences during this very strange, scary, unsettling time. The highs, the lows and our take on it all. I hope one day our children will read…