So are you reading more now that you have no travel time, or maybe even no work? or are you finding your brain is crystallising trying to absorb more information, look for more information while there is none to be had, whilst trying to resist stockpiling because you have to ‘do’ something, but you’re quite limited as to what it is?
Are you commenting on barmy tweets where people want to yell ‘stupid’ at anyone they disagree with? (I don’t recommend this by the way).
Let’s deal with important things. Surely a significant survival mechanism when mental health is at stake is chocolate. (Why is no one else mentioning this?) With this in mind, i had a special planned pre-work trip to Lidl to buy their bars of dark chocolate which we recently discovered on a strawberry buying expedition. (This is a different sort of chocolate than you will find in your local corner shop)
The actual event went like this: queue in traffic for ages; Park up; think ‘things can’t be so bad if I can park’, walk up to the doors whilst seeing the queues inside; get very close to the doors….
Walk away from the doors,
because it turns out that even chocolate isn’t worth that much close contact with crowd…
spend ages in traffic trying to leave.
Feel bad about what we did to the environment for no actual benefit whatsoever.
We have now indulged a visit to Dark Sugarshttps://www.darksugars.co.uk/ in Greenwich on the basis that we need cheering up when times are so dire – but this was pricey. There was hardly anyone in there, the staff are a long way from the customers and there is hand gel on the counter. We like.
PS – my debut novel ‘Helen and the Grandbees’ is available for only £3.99 on pre-order on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Alex+Morrall&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
(No idea if the good price will last, my publisher set it! )
