Covid Chronicles: You give a snapshot census of your difficulties - and triumphs - during the dark days of lockdown
By Michael Holmes
Published 1st Sep 2020, 07:48 GMT
Updated 1st Sep 2020, 08:07 GMT
From dodging the park to promise-filled podcasts, and from fearful sunseeking to disrupted video calls, life has been different for each of us despite the common difficulties brought on by the pandemic.
The Lancashire Post hit the streets to speak to residents who have a snapshot census of their difficulties - and triumphs - during the dark days of Covid lockdown.
From left to right, top to bottom: Beth Lamoury with Sophie, five, and Joshua, two; Jack Wilkinson; Maxine Moreley; Keira Southworth; Trevor Hart with Tara, five; Diann Bennett; Stephanie Afifi; and Marcus Wright
These are their chronicles...
Trevor Hart, 61, from Cottam, said: "People have said, 'You're brave having a five-year-old and teaching her,' but I say, 'Without that five-year-old, I think I would have gone spare.'
"I couldn't get out and do the same things. I couldn't socialise. I couldn't get involved in all the things that I was involved in.
"Sitting on my own staring at four walls would have sent me around the twist.
"I'm a guy on my own now. I lost my wife to a brain tumour four years ago.
"I would have been literally on my own and I think I would have found that extremely hard.
"Life will change again come September.
"If I can't get out and do stuff, I think I'm going to find that quite lonely.
"I know I'm going to miss her when she goes back to school.
"It's the right thing to do, but, yeah..."
Jack Wilkinson, 79, from Fulwood, said: "The older people seem to abide by the rules, but not the younger ones.
"The younger ones want to forget it all and they want to be leading their normal lives, but you can't.
"Because if it gets you, you've had it."
