One year on

A year ago today I wrote in this blog, “So now the UK is in lockdown” and here we are a year later still in lockdown (although there have been many variations and levels in between.) It felt surreal then and to a certain extent it still does. When 2020 started Covid-19 didn’t even have a name yet, and I don’t think any of us in Europe anticipated a pandemic. The first cases were reported in China, and that’s where many of us assumed it would stay, a bit like Ebola (mainly) remained in West Africa. 

Covid spread so very quickly, and we watched the news with growing alarm from our holiday in New Zealand. It has been the strangest twelve months of our lives. So many people have died of Coronavirus around the world, some known to us personally, it has been so sad. The changes to our lives have made many people including myself reflect on what is really important to us. And although the vaccines are hopefully showing us a way out of lockdown, it’s not over yet.