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LIFE AFTER LOCKDOWN

It feels like a lifetime ago that my husband, Jon, 48, and our children, Eddie, 16, Sammy, 11, and Annie, nine, watched Boris Johnson put the country into lockdown.

For the first few days, I showered, put on a bra and started work as a writer.

That didn’t last long. Soon for my family in our little Devonshire village, it started to feel like that week between Christmas and New Year when nobody knows the day or even the time.

The highs and lows of the next three months included approximately 56 games of Trivial Pursuit, one jigsaw (unfinished), 34 games of Scrabble, five

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