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QUARANTINE OVER
September 8, 2020

I’M FREE!!! WOOHOO HAPPY DAYS. My two weeks quarantine is over. Skipped out of my house and did a little “Dancing In The Street” rendition I’ve been practicing in my kitchen for the last two weeks (nothing else to do). […]

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QUARANTINE: WEEK 2
September 1, 2020

Am I meant to be ignoring my two week quarantine like every one else seems to be doing? I’m eight days in and going a little bit mad. I’ve picked all my spots and plucked out most of my body […]

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TWO WEEK QUARANTINE
August 25, 2020

I’m home from a lovely relaxing few weeks in the Dordogne and now have to self isolate for two weeks. TWO WEEKS when they’ve only had one confirmed case in the local area where I was staying. What a blow […]

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WEEK 13 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN
June 26, 2020

WEEK 13 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN Right, so I’m going to leave my weekly lockdown reports there because I’m boring even myself now. Nothing additional to report and lockdown seems to be all but over if Bournemouth beach yesterday was anything […]

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WEEK 10 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN
June 5, 2020

WEEK 10 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN…or is it Week 11?. It’s definitely Week 11, as we did 10 weeks of clapping and this week we stopped. But never mind, whose counting?….Day 75. Life is slowly returning to some semblance of our […]

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WEEK 7 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN
May 8, 2020

WEEK 7 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN…or Day 45 to be precise. This is getting seriously tedious now, even my house is beginning to smell mouldy, let alone the people living in it.   We are all hoping that Boris will throw […]

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LONDON LOCKDOWN WEEK 5
April 24, 2020

Week 5 of London Lockdown, or Day 30 to be precise. What can you see out of your window, wherever you are in the world?  How is lockdown for you? How are you coping? Lot’s of places now attempting to come […]

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DIARY OF WEEK 4 IN LONDON LOCKDOWN
April 17, 2020

Week 4 of London Lockdown, or Day 25 to be precise. We had a government update yesterday telling us that the lockdown was going to be extended by at least another 3 weeks throughout the whole of the UK – […]

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DAY 17 OF LONDON LOCKDOWN
April 9, 2020

Day 17 of our London Lockdown. It’s another gloriously sunny day and we are still all locked away in our cages, dealing with our Coronaphobia and waiting to be told that there will no doubt be a further long extension […]

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“IN IN” IS THE NEW “OUT OUT”
March 21, 2020

So “Staying In In” is the new “Going Out Out” and it’s going to take a bit of getting used to for our young things, for all of us in fact. I might start trying to get good at cocktail […]

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