I have been enjoying the lockdown caused by the pandemic. It has been an opportunity to stop rushing around and be at home, with my partner and our garden. Our early attempts at an exercise regime have fallen away, but I do two zoom yoga classes a week an

I have been enjoying the lockdown caused by the pandemic. It has been an opportunity to stop rushing around and be at home, with my partner and our garden. Our early attempts at an exercise regime have fallen away, but I do two zoom yoga classes a week and we take a good walk almost every day. We have a project to walk every street in our village, and discovering lots of beautiful homes and interesting views that we were not aware of. It gives us a focus which keeps us going.

My family has set up a weekly zoom so we have been seeing more of them than usual, which is a delight. We have been attending zoom concerts from our favourite chamber musicians and loving them. The amount of excellent musical performance online has been a revelation and a delight.

We have kept in touch with our local community, getting a takeaway coffee most days from our favourite cafe, and inviting friends from the city to take the drive to visit us for lunch in the Blue Mountains. They have been keen to come out of the city. A few friends from my choir and I meet weekly to sing together and stay in touch with the music while our choir is closed down.

I’m not sure I really want it to end. I do want to stop rushing around as much as we did. I’m not sure how things will be different, but I am sure they will be.