a year after lockdown started ...
There'a been quite a gap since I last posted on the blog, but today, a year since the UK went into its first COVID lockdown, seems like a good time to start again. A lot has happened over the last year. We've had lockdown birthdays, zoom birthday parties, had a baby and moved house. I'm now back at work after maternity leave. But it wasn't quite the return to work I had been hoping for ... A year ago I was sat on the sofa in tears. Because the PM had just announced a (minimum) 3 week lockdown for the UK. 3 weeks that would take us past my eldest's birthday, that I had, barely a handful of hours earlier, told her I would see her to celebrate. Except, for me and many other separated parents, the announcement was terrifying. Because at no point was transporting children between parents' homes mentioned as an allowable reason for travel. It never really was ever noted. There were people who told me it wasn't allowed (even onc...