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Week 15 - Thursday in London brings concerns at home and across the country for Sally

Edited BY

G P Kennedy

Sally - London, UK


 Pretty much the same as last week and I still have a ball of anxiety in the pit of my stomach. It’s like something bad is about to happen but I don’t know what.  I think I am just fatigued with it all now and really just want it all to be over.  It feels like I am living in The Truman Show and someone somewhere is seeing how long I will take to snap under this pressure.  I just have to keep remembering that this is affecting everyone and that there are a lot of people in a worse situation than me.

 

 We still are being cautious and not seeing family or friends but I guess there has to be a point when we make the leap and do it.

 

 So the pubs and non essential shops opened last week and the government released a statement a few days later saying something along the lines of ‘they realized drunk people can not socially distance’. Well, duh!  Three pubs have already had to shut their doors again as either customers or staff has shown symptoms of COVID-19. I’m really not sure what they expected?


Regional spikes are appearing across England
 

 A few other areas in England are on the brink of local lockdown as the cases are rising again but most of the local supermarkets have stopped the one-way system up the aisles and taken down the perspex screens between customers and cashiers.  The staff now all wears face masks and customers are just asked to use common sense. I have noticed that a lot more people are wearing face masks on the street. 

 

 This week the government has said hairdressers, gyms and outdoor swimming pools can also open.  So it seems most things are starting to get back to a new normal?

 

The media industry that my boyfriend and me work in seems to be slowly starting up again but in a very different state than before.  There is talk that big shows like Strictly Come Dancing will have a shorter run and with no audiences which means that cameras will be cut so less people will be working on it.  Dramas like Eastenders are also slowly returning but again with less cameras so less opportunities to get work.  The next job in my diary is in September, fingers crossed that will happen but that also means we will still be getting financial help from the government till then.

 

One of the BBC's most popular shows is about to return

 A very big positive but also a negative of lockdown is the amount of time we have had to spend with the baby. It’s been great as she is changing daily and her little personality is definitely growing but she is becoming very clingy, especially to me. 

 

 Sometimes when she’s tired she cries if I leave the room to go to the toilet and I worry that when I do start going back to work how she and my boyfriend will cope if I am out the house for 14 hours?  I also worry how she will be with other people when she gets to meet her grandparents and family again and if she will be nervous or scared.  She’s only 15 months and she’s spent the last 4 of the in lockdown with just my partner and me.


The baby at the bathroom door

 

 

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