Sunday 28 March 2021

Things To Keep From Lockdown

The lockdown in Britain ends officially on June 21st but judging by the amount of people in town this weekend, many people seem to have heard a different date to me and decided that June is just too far away and March is as good a time to come out.
Can't say i blame them, i was deemed an essential worker and have been out and about since March 2020 anyway so have avoided the whole lockdown thing but i must admit i have enjoyed the fact that there was less people and cars milling about the town.    
If i could save anything from the past 12 months it would be the lack of queuing in shops and the availability of parking spaces, two things which i have always bleated about and know will come rushing back to give me a headache in June.
The Government are trying to tempt workers who have been setting up an office in their living room back into the Office and presumably back to Pret for lunch and the pub after work as we pick up exactly where we left off last March.
As i was told to stay and work local, something i have got unused to is the 300 mile commute on a busy, stupidly early train on Monday morning followed by a 300 mile commute back on a Thursday evening, something i am trying depsreptly not to return to although some people have missed their commute and the decompression time between work and home but as we come out blinking into the post-Covid World, there are some aspects of the last year that we could incorporate into our old lives.
I hope we retain the keeping a little distance, washing hands and wearing masks when ill with colds or flu, make more video conferencing calls to save on travel and just a general, slower pace of life and keeping the 'community spirit' of thanking those who we take for granted before such as the NHS staff, the supermarket workers, teachers and the Government and Council employees who have been working throughout to keep the cities and country going.

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