Five Years On: share your lockdown stories! 

It’s hard to believe it’s five years since Boris Johnson appeared on TV telling us “you must stay at home”, and the UK, along with much of the world, was put into lockdown.  Most of us had little idea at that point how our lives would play out over the coming months, while the world shifted in ways we could never have anticipated.  We shielded the clinically-vulnerable, fashioned PPE out of bin bags and masks out of duvet covers, home-schooled our kids and created offices in kitchen cubbyholes.  We took socially-distanced walks, banged saucepans for key workers, attended appointments in near-deserted hospitals, and gagged on those horrible throat swabs.  Yet many also found time for peace and reflection, to take a step back from busy lives and re-evaluate their priorities.