Covid19 – Fay Young

Deliverance is local: Covid benchmarks

Mar 26, 2021

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in Diary of a would be blogger, Life in lockdown, This Broughton Life

Our disinfected doorbell rings. Outside a smiling young man delivers a box of essentials: fresh fruit, toilet rolls, paracetamol…and just a little booze.

The sound of loosening ice

Feb 20, 2021

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in Poetry

“I’ll be mighty pissed off if I die in my last year at work,” he texted last March as Covid put paid to his plans for earlyish retirement. Perhaps my GP brother’s hands-on approach to work influenced my personal response to Gael Turnbull’s poetry.

What’s Covid-safe behaviour? Ask your hairdresser

Nov 27, 2020

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in Diary of a would be blogger, In praise of women, Life in lockdown

Think positive. By coincidence, the inspirational ‘wellbeing’ word etched into my mirror is Positive which these days has negative connotations so I ask if the salon has recorded any infections since reopening in July.