My DIY Husband

If you’ve read one of my latest blogs, you might have guessed that my husband has been using bits of annual leave during lockdown to get into his DIY. The washing line has been the most recent project of choice. He decided it would be more convenient if it were on the other side of the room, so carefully moved it. On its first use in the new location, it came crashing down rather spectacularly and broke. I guess after 25 years, plastic washing lines are allowed to throw in the towel, or throw it off in this instance.

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When The World Stopped

I’m not really writing this for now. I’m writing it to remember, in the years that come, and when I’m (hopefully) telling my children and maybe grandchildren about it, what the world was like during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re living through it now, but I have no doubt that one day this will be taught to children in schools as part of their history lessons. I want to remember what it was like to be in it, rather than just the selective bits my memory holds onto in years to come.

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