Since the beginning of the Corona Virus lockdown in March 2020, I have been writing a daily Diary on how I am surviving in isolation as a woman living on my own.
It has been an interesting journey because what do you write when every day seems the same? Life becomes a matter of keeping in contact with loved ones and friends and finding ways to bring food into the house without having to go out to buy it.
The thought of three months of isolation seemed extremely daunting at first but human beings are resilient creatures and better at adapting perhaps than we think.
It hasn’t been that hard after all, in fact in many ways I rather like it, the most difficult thing being distanced from my family and my grandchildren physically.
I am in the ‘vulnerable, at risk’ category, being just over seventy and at first I rather begrudged the continual reference to that fact, after all I consider myself to be a very fit and healthy person. I couldn’t help wondering if the fact that us ‘poor old dears’ were to be given a special shopping hour just after all the NHS staff early in the morning, was so that we didn’t get crushed in the queue of people standing two metres apart? Or was it a ruse to try and get rid of us after the NHS staff had done their shopping on their way home from the Covid wards? I jest of course.
My three months of daily writing came to a close on the twelfth of June 2020 but several very kind people have asked me if I would continue my blog anyway, so here goes but now it will be on week days only.
I do hope you will join me. You can find me as well on:-
Twitter:- @PennysDiary Instagram:- @penny4thought
and on Facebook:- www.facebook.com/PennysDiary
where you can catch up from Day 1 if you would like to.
It would be lovely if my faithful followers would continue to follow me and to welcome new followers too.