2020: Life in a Pandemic

9th June 2020

Another month passes, and the world (or, at least, our small part of it) is slowly returning to a semblance of normality as the lockdown measures ease. And, of course, as my broken ankle slowly heals… more on that shortly. We finally got back down to Cornwall later in May, and we’ve been living on …

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4th May 2020

We returned to London on Easter weekend, three weeks into the UK Covid lockdown.  The journey itself was quite surreal, with French motorways almost entirely devoid of motor traffic and just an inside lane of HGVs transporting life’s necessities across the country.  Our stop at a motorway service station was reminiscent of a Mad Max …

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8th April 2020

View towards Ste Foy Station This is our final entry from Ste Foy for now and, with France and England in lockdown, we’re not sure when we’ll return.  It’s so sad to leave as, despite the restrictions imposed over the past 4 weeks, it has been an amazing month.  The weather has been glorious although, …

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2nd April 2020

Life under lockdown (and with a leg in plaster!) We certainly hadn’t anticipated this when we started our website and came out to France for a season skiing. A combination of my immobility after rupturing my Achilles’ tendon and the global effects of Coronavirus, have together reduced our life to the confines of the four …

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22nd March 2020

How things have changed over the past few short weeks…  I returned to Ste Foy on the 7th March saddened that I wouldn’t ski with Jonathan again this season, but still looking forward to friends joining us for several weeks before the end of April.  Carol arrived the next day and we had lovely fresh …

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