Covid-19
The pre-post-COVID chronicles
On the 27th January, 2022, the UK eased back its Coronavirus “plan B” restrictions - such as they were. I was hoping I’d feel something more momentous and freeing. What I’m actually feeling is much more murky and ambiguous. This winter has been tough, and I, I feel like it has changed me. Some words: I know, objectively, the last three months have been some of the softest restrictions we’ve been under, anyone’s been under.
February 1, 2022
Time in the Time of Coronavirus
COVID-19 has taken much from us, and one I feel keenly is my sense of time. It’s as though all our rituals are on hiatus. Maybe not rituals like those of ancient humans - worshipping the arc of the sun, or the retreat of the winter frost - but even modern lives have an ebb and flow, are patterned in cycles. The beginning of September school term; the pre-Christmas drinks. The dry Januaries and the big spring cleans in March.
November 16, 2020