Corona diary - Part 4

A visual record of living in lockdown created 5 years ago

8th May 2025

Week 4 - Looking back on this week I can sense the underlying worry, though it’s interesting to see a record of the responses I used to those stresses: naps, cooking, gardening, day baths (this might actually have been the start of my love affair with day baths!) and escaping into a box set. All good reliable escapes that I am still conscious to make time for today as a method of stress relief.

I find it interesting that despite my excess of ‘free time’ I kept to two pens and didn’t switch into big colouring or detailing mode. In fact on this page it looks like I forgot to add colour at all towards the end of the week which is surprising to me. Perhaps grey better reflected my mood.

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