I looked at the lateral flow test. In certain lights, I could just about make out a faint line next to the T. If I turned it ever so slightly, however, the line disappeared. This was just a trick of the light, I didn’t have COVID. Nah, surely not.
The nurse, Doreen, pushed the needle into my arm. I felt the mildest of pin pricks. A colleague of Doreen’s had been attempting to keep me chatting. I guessed this was a good cop / bad cop thing: Doreen was the bad cop administering the vaccine while her colleague kept me talking to distract me,
Several months ago, the Government announced that schoolchildren in England would have the opportunity to catch up on lost-learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by getting some time with a tutor. Known as the National Tutoring Programme, it recently got underway but the programme hasn’t had a huge amount of publicity since it was launched.
The news that UK schools were to close as a result of coronavirus initially made me despair. The implications of a long school closure have the potential to be very serious. Although the news was inevitable, I felt sad, worried and a sense of melancholy. After a few hours, I began to think differently about
