Impressions

• Bird song - louder and more varied than before

• Empty roads, but filled with parked cars, often spilling over the drives and half on the pavements. Modern cars are so big and wide

• Empty pavements, and when someone approaches you, you give them a lot of distance - two meters is the recommended minimum

• Patient queues of widely spaced people outside supermarkets and grocery shops

• Quiet

• Low level anxiety, about health and wealth. 

• Missing friends and family and colleagues

• Working from home for weeks

• Watching the 5pm press conference from No 10. The minister (Boris Johnson is still convalescing at Checquers) is flanked by two scientific advisers

• Rather underwhelming video conferencing than promises more than it delivers

• Mourning cancelled sports events like Euro 2020, and Wimbledon

• Wondering when things will get back to normal, and how normal that normal will be