#The CoronaDiaries THE entire world is quite obviously aware of this virus that is globally dominating every aspect of our lives. Panic buying toilet rolls, social distancing and the country on lockdown, forcing us to socially isolate. Many people are noticeably hyperfocused on survival, the tangible aspects of how the […]

#The CoronaDiaries By Eugenija Steponkutė Magazine Journalism graduate, writes of lockdown life in London   “You’re awake? Thought you would sleep in at least on the weekend…” My partner takes a sip of a coffee as I enter the living room. Based on our conversation last night, he has been […]

#The CoronaDiaries   I WAKE to near-silence. The usual background whoosh and hum of traffic is gone. The tweeting and chirruping of birds is the loudest sound in my world right now. The sound of nature reasserting itself, if only for this brief time before the Government lets us all […]

#The CoronaDiaries   THANKS to the coronavirus, I’m probably getting fitter. I’m doing more exercise than ever before. Not being able to go to work each morning has introduced a new ritual for me and my wife. We go for a walk. A simple pleasure which normal life allows little […]

#The CoronaDiaries   THE muted whooshing of wind-blown trees and the cheerfully chaotic chorusing of hedge-sparrows… in the absence of most human noise, these have become the new quiet song of the outdoors. I’m struck, as I venture outside for my allotted ‘exercise hour’, by how this Covid-19 crisis has […]

#The CoronaDiaries   RIGHT, okay, I’m being real here. This is going to be raw. I’m going to voice a truth that everyone is feeling right now: QUARANTINE SUCKS! Yeah, I totally get it. I understand why covidiots in the South are sunbathing in Shepherds Bush and that people are […]