There's No Going Back

Here in the UK, we're starting the second week of, I don't know what to call it - extreme social distancing? We don't seem to have a snappy name for it. It's not shelter in place, like our friends in California are experiencing, and nobody in the UK wants to refer to it as lockdown. But essentially that's what it is.

I'm really hoping it works.

In normal times, I work with a lot of vulnerable groups. I teach exercise to older adult groups (and some groups that don't fall into that category). As a massage therapist, I volunteer at the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre at St James's Hospital, and am the complementary therapist on the young adult ward run by the Teenager Cancer Trust.

As you can imagine, I'm not working at the moment...I have started to teach a virtual Pilates class using Zoom. And I've volunteered to work at LTHT (Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust), if they need to call on volunteers in the coming weeks.

In other news...we're in the middle of birthday season. Off the top of my head, I can think of 7 people who celebrate their birthday in March, including myself. There are probably others that haven't come to mind yet. Yesterday, it was my partner's birthday, and tomorrow it's the turn of my youngest nephew, Joe.

Here is a photo of the carrot cake that I made for John. In fact, my first ever carrot cake!