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What a year. Where to begin?

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What a year. Where to begin? Like everyone, my life has been turned upside down by the Covid19 pandemic. At first it didn't bother me that much if I'm honest. As an introvert who worked from home a fair bit anyways, having to stay at home didn't seem so bad. The most disruptive thing was the closing of the labs, but even then I could at least bring a microscope home to get on with a backlog of prepared slides (guess what, I haven't looked at any). My husband and I decided to share childcare of our two daughters on a daily basis, with me looking after them in the morning, and him looking after them in the afternoon. Again, this worked ok at first. A morning playing with the kids, an afternoon on Zoom meetings and catching up with emails. This soon descended into chaos as the kids inevitably got utterly bored with being in the house, the older one wanting to binge watch Power Rangers (don't ask) and the younger being soley interested in pre-school bright colours repet