Pete
As usual I cycled to the allotment and spent the day repairing a retaining fence on my wildflower corridor, digging out at the back of the fence and straightening it up.I sowed new wildflower seeds, all the time surrounded by butterflies, bees looking for somewhere to settle, birds, and the allotment cats passing by. I spent my lunch break watching two crows flying to and fro with nest material, to the top of a big sycamore. Spring has definitely arrived.
On 16 March 2020, one week before official government guidance, and just as Covid 19 was turning into a global epidemic, the Performance Ensemble went into lockdown. Our weekly company workshops came to an abrupt halt, and we disappeared behind our individual front doors. The easy ways of communicating, face to face, were no more. But we still needed to connect. Nine of the company started to keep diaries of their experiences, as a way of overcoming the isolation. Here they are: 31 days of lockdown, recorded during the months of March and April, beginning on 16 March and ending on 1 May, just as restrictions started to be eased. Edited by Barney Bardsley