Last week on 'Amber Writes About Mundane Things Under the Guise of Documenting Life in Lockdown', you might recall I was deeply embroiled in a washer /dryer drama, the likes ...
I'm going to open this week's diary entry by presenting you with a short list of all of the things that have broken down /temporarily stopped working in our house ...
This week marks our 12th week of self-isolation. Twelve. Weeks. Twelve weeks was, of course, the period of time Terry - and others like him - were originally told they'd have ...
One of the things I think we can all agree on right now – or, at least, I hope we can – is that lockdown sucks, and it sucks in…
This week Scotland entered Phase 1 of its easing of lockdown, which means we finally got to see my parents again, after almost three months' worth of Facetime calls: the ...
Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've done a few of these 'Day of My Life' posts, with the aim of documenting some ordinary, random days, so I ...
I know it's not like me to start one of these posts on a positive note, but I'm feeling just a little bit more hopeful than usual this week, and ...
This week, our household begins our tenth week of “shielding” – completely isolating ourselves from the outside world, in a bid to protect ourselves from Covid-19. Actually, it’s just my…
I'm a little bit behind with these diary entries right now: partly because there just aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with everything, but also because it's ...
Lots of things have changed in the world since the Coronavirus pandemic started, but I think the moment it really hit home for me that, wow, OK, things ...
I wish I could say week 6 of lockdown got off to a quiet start for us, but that would be a blatant lie, because we actually kicked off this ...
Documenting our days on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Early this week, I had a long - and very intense - dream in which I realised I'd put the dishwasher onto the 3 hour cycle, instead of the 30 ...
For weeks after our dog, Rubin, died, every single thing reminded me of him - and every single memory hurt. What surprised me about this, though, was the fact that ...
While our first two weeks of lockdown were a blur of non-COVID-related illness , and desperate attempts to get our heads around what was happening, as our third week of ...
Documenting our second week of social isolation, and the first week of the UK lockdown…
This morning, Terry finally received his much-anticipated letter from the Scottish Government, advising him that, as one of the people at the highest risk from Coronavirus , he should isolate ...
Last week, our family - like many others in the UK and around the world - started what we're currently being told will be 12 weeks of social isolation, in ...