I’m enjoying the time spent at home during the Government lockdown.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy coming into the office – I can’t work from home – but I’m saving a fortune not going and and I’m choosing to invest my time in learning to play my guitar.

It gives me no excuse of distractions.

Driving to and from work makes me feel like I’m in an episode of the Twilight Zone but events at the moment are all too real and far stranger than fiction.

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I love how online content providers like Netflix and the BBC have added more videos for people to watch and it’s great putting my feet up and munching on a bar of marzipan in front of the television – it’s the small things in life.

In the village where I live we don’t even have street lights, so at the moment, in the evening, it does have a spooky silence but when residents come out clapping for NHS workers once a week, it’s reassuring to hear hands clapping, pans rattling and people cheering – truly humbling and it brings a tear to my eye every time.

I’m also, as we all should, questioning what I really need from my weekly trip to the supermarket.

I k now this sounds simple but when I run out of a toiletry product, I cut the top off and use as much as I can inside, just like how people lived during the Second World War – not wasting anything.

It’s not because I’m tight but I’m limiting my time in shops and the same goes for petrol.

My car is getting low on fuel so I’ll start to cycle into work instead of risking touching petrol pumps – I’ll have to get fuel at some point and when I do, I’ll fill the tank right up and think about my travel.

When this pandemic ends, and it will, I believe as a race, humans will question their true purpose and take that leap into the unknown they’ve always wanted to do but were scared to do for fear of failure or even of fear of success.

I believe humans are inherently good on the whole and it’s great that the majority are sticking to the rules.

I think it’s important we’re not paranoid and never go out but just think of the Government guidelines and work from there.

That way, the quicker we’ll get through this dark tunnel and get to the light.