Jo “6 months into Covid some thought from deepest Norfolk… I can’t think of a Prime Minister in my lifetime who was less well equipped to deal with the current situation than Boris Johnson”
Background information Female, Aged 55-64, Retired Teacher in translation from Norfolk, Married to husband for 40 years with one adult child, Heterosexual.
September, 6 months into the pandemic 6 months into Covid some thoughts from deepest Norfolk:
• I don’t need the company of other people as much as I thought I did
• Despite my first comment I’m finding being in the company of only my husband for much of the time very wearing. We’ve been married 40 years and he is recently retired
• It was great to be allowed to get off the treadmill without being made to feel lazy
• I haven’t bought any clothes since March and don’t feel the need to
• I have drunk too much vodka
• I have been in touch with friends from all over the world and made new ones via social media
• I feel low level anxiety most of the time despite living in an area with relatively low levels of infection
• Our daughter being obliged to live with us during lockdown was a wonderful time to get to know her as an adult. She has been at university or living in New Zealand for the last 7 years. I am so proud of the compassionate, creative, independent thinking and positive young woman she has become
• Despite the ghastliness of airports, I would really like to go to one now
• As soon as I can I would like to go to New Zealand for 3 months and escape from the world. If I could move there I would
• The chance to really be ‘in’ the natural world during Lockdown was a huge privilege
• I count myself lucky not to have a job to lose or career to establish
• I am struggling to keep fit despite the newly purchased E-bike
• Thanks to the above I am discovering wonderful hidden treasures in my local area such as the rectory where Dorothy Wordsworth lived with her uncle when her parents died
• I can’t think of a Prime Minister in my lifetime who was less well equipped to deal with the current situation than Boris Johnson
• I spend too much time obsessing over the news
• Some days feel entirely normal. Others feel as though we’re all living in sci fi novel
• I am grateful every day that I no longer live in London
• I’m dreading the winter. I hate the short days anyway and the thought of unremitting bad news and foul weather is too depressing for words
• Perhaps I’m not such a positive person after all!
