Christian aged 62

As an artist I have spent a lot of my life working on my own and I am quite comfortable in my own company. I’m not sure where the idea came from, but during lockdown I started doing some work on redoing the soundtracks of classic movies, such as Close Encounter with puppets, so what

Kate aged 29

Yeah, I mean, I actually really enjoyed lockdown to an extent because I’m secretly an introvert and I actually quite like hiding. As soon as there was a child in the house that changed because I needed to get out with her as much as possible. My thing is a nine year old child, Charlie. 

Ryan aged 39

I work for a frontline local charity supporting volunteers so I came across a lot of people not putting themselves first, in these really challenging circumstances.  Everyone was impacted, but their first thought was how I can help someone who is in a less fortunate and in a more vulnerable position than me. I can’t

Eve aged 45

There has been so much pain, loss and sadness throughout this pandemic but also surprising moments of joy and inspiration. There have been things that have brought us together and things that have ripped us apart. The Covid chronicles offer a brief window into the many experiences we have had, some of which will be

Karen – aged 50

We were furloughed for two months, which was actually quite nice as work topped our money up.  I didn’t have the pressure of working 9-5 every day, I got quite fit, I was going running every day. It was a nice kind of break and it didn’t hit me that much financially. My son’s dad

Juliet – aged 44 ( Austria)

Covid 19 shook us, not stirred us, shook us and maybe we needed it to wake up. The people who work for the ambulance service, the fire guards and those who work in grocery stores those are the people that have kept up the system and you truly saw who was actually holding up the

Lee aged 28

I had a really hard time with not being able to access my usual distractions.  I couldn’t go out and have sex, I couldn’t go to the gym. All the things I ascribed to my identity as a sex worker and the things that I used to make myself feel valuable, which was sex, going

Amy aged 47

The hardest thing generally for me has been the figures, it’s the people who have died, in my opinion totally unnecessarily due to bad decisions, bad government decisions, indecision. All that stuff, you can, you can’t, you might, you won’t.  It made me really angry and I found it really hard. It was just the

Dave aged 67

The whole thing impacted people in different ways but the one thing we all had was the uncertainty of everything. This has never been dealt with in my lifetime, my dad lived through the 2nd world war, so I heard all those stories. This is something that came near to that kind of tragedy.  People

John Aged 55

The first lockdown in the March (2020) when the weather was glorious, we spent loads of time in the garden. All the cars stopped and the air turned clean, that was huge, I remember going out into the garden one day and I could smell the countryside, I could hear the wind, I could hear