The start of summer 2020
Hasn’t the time shifted by this year? Despite many people’s lives seemingly being put on hold due to the COVID-19 it seems bizarre that in the last week we had passed by the Summer Solstice…
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90 days, recovery and return of the tortoises
90 days since lockdown Today is the 90th since lockdown was imposed in the UK on 23 March 2020. As of this weekend it appears that the Government have reduced the risk level in the…
UK Lockdown to day 83: burial grounds, marathons and Beethoven
It’s been quite a week. From having trained alone for many weeks it’s been nice to run with a group again through to running a virtual ultramarathon on the road. Day 77 The day started…
The week up to Day 76: all change
This week hasn’t been the smoothest of lockdown. I think that’s probably the best thing I can say about this week. And yes a few things have changed. Website changes I’ve been a bit concerned…
69 Days and the UK lockdown loosens a bit more
It’s been another warm and dry week in the UK (and especially Manchester where that ball of fire in the sky isn’t seen as often as it might be). The weather has been great to…
Day 62: another week in lockdown
After the near disaster of a week that I covered in my last post, this week has been a lot more sedate. And hasn’t involved the bike at all. I’ve also decided to change things…
Day 55 in lockdown; the end of a not-so great week
It all goes wrong I guess it was bound to happen eventually and things would unravel, at least to some extent. And it was this week where that happened. The week started off on a…
48 days in – UK lockdown update
These weekly updates seem to come around more rapidly than they should. Today is the 48th day since the lockdown was imposed in the UK. Aside from the lack of work (and thus me being…
Another week of lockdown (Day 41 and counting)
It’s the first week since the lockdown began that I realised that I wasn’t OK. Thus far it hadn’t been too bad; funnily enough a number of other long-term anxiety sufferers had commented that our…
Day 34 in the UK lockdown house
I think it’s day 34 anyway. To be honest it’s all merged into one continuous stream of ‘meh’ interspersed with a daily dose of going out and doing some activity. At least to date the…