Author name: Kim Stollard

#LivingInLockdown Day 22 – Monday 6th April   The start of week four in quarantine and a definite sensation of ennui is beginning to set in. A bit of me can’t be bothered to get out of bed, because whatever needs doing can wait after all. Don’t worry I do get out of bed. Not […]

#LivingInLockdown Day 21 – Sunday 5th April   End of week three in lockdown. This is the day I allow myself to read the latest stats for Spain and Madrid. The rest of the week I deliberately ignore them. There is the usual roll call of the dead: 12,418 in Spain and 4941 in Madrid.

#LivingInLockdown Day 20 – Saturday 4th April   We’re coming to the end of my ‘let’s try some new stuff’ week and I’m feeling a bit guilty that I haven’t actually done that much new, so today I decided to play catch up. If quarantine hadn’t happened I would have been flying back from Rome

#LivingInLockdown Day 19 – Friday 3rd April   I woke up really early today, between 4am and 5am. This is happening to me about once a week. It is nothing to do with anxiety or sleep problems. Quite the opposite in fact, the issue is too much sleep. I normally get about 7h to 7.5h

#LivingInLockdown Day 18 – Thursday 2nd April   This week was dedicated to new experiences and making the most of your time during lockdown, but how do we each do that when we are bombarded daily by so much negativity in the news and social media. How do we deal with constant roll call of

#LivingInLockdown Day 17 – Wednesday 1st April   It’s April fools day and social media is full of posts wishing Corona Virus was one great April fool but unfortunately not. I have woken up with a mild hangover. Last night I drank a bottle of red wine. It wasn’t my intention to do so, but

#LivingInLockdown Day 16 – Tuesday 31st March   I should currently be on holiday in Rome. Had life carried on as normal without this virus I would be visiting the Vatican Museums and St Peters Tomb today. Instead I’m sat at home watching it snow outside. Fortunately most of the tourist attractions in Rome have

#LivingInLockdown Day 15 – Monday 30th March   It’s the start of a new week and enough of the heavy thinking I feel. Time to lighten the mood. For some reason I leapt out of bed this morning raring to go. This is most unusual. I never do this, even without the lockdown, because I’m

#LivingInLockdown Day 14 – Sunday 29th March   The end of week two in isolation and time to check in on the statistic. This has become a morbid fascination for many watching the number of cases and deaths rise each day. We’re hoping to see the curve finally peak and start to go down, because

#LivingInLockdown Day 13 – Saturday 28th March   A short blog today because I’m having a rest and really can’t be bothered to write much. I have a question for you all. Have you ever analysed how much rubbish you create? No! Me neither, until now that is. Under normal circumstances I have very little