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A Dorset Village in Lockdown

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Author: Jess Morency

“In London the streets were so deserted I could walk up Piccadilly and Regent Street and stand in the middle of Oxford Circus.”

December 18, 2020January 2, 2021 / Jess Morency / 2 Comments

Tracy's Story: There were only police cars and empty buses doggedly following their routes in case an essential worker needed them.

“There was a Rector who I think had read too much Trollope or something. He kept sheep and cattle around every corner, and a pig called Augusta.”

November 28, 2020January 2, 2021 / Jess Morency / 3 Comments

Sara's story: They were always escaping. I remember one day waking up and there were about forty sheep on my lawn.

“I think one day there won’t be no Travellers. It will just finish. Just like the dragons… or whatever, died out.”

November 14, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Mary Margaret's Story: But we’re survivors, aren’t we, and it makes me proud that we can survive through anything: living on a roadside, with no electricity, no water, not heating, no food. I’m proud of how them traditions get passed on.

“Calling us Gypsies is fine, but we call ourselves Romany Travellers because some of them, like wi’ me, used to roam.”

November 14, 2020January 2, 2021 / Jess Morency / 5 Comments

Morris's Story: If they give to me and my family then I’ve gotta give something back. That is me. To me I’ve got a heart. I like to help people, not to hurt people.

“We have to put our trust in scientists. Personally, I’d rather put my trust in them than anyone else.”

November 11, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Des's Story: The process is so well regulated, and I don’t get the sense they’re completely baffled about what to do.

I believe that everyone being in a state of fear is completely wrong. It’s taking away our power of healing.’

November 7, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Magdalena's Story: But actually, I am a very positive person. I feel that after the bottom line there will be an up – but I don’t know where will be the bottom line for the world yet.

“What I have now realised is that inactivity creates low points for me, particularly when it’s forced.”

October 31, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 1 Comment

Rupert's Story: Although, while I hate saying there there’s ever a positive to a deal falling through, absolutely 100% I wouldn’t want to be in a big-rent pub at this particular moment.

“I wonder if life will just go back to how it was before. I think there’s the risk that we don’t remember how lovely it was when things slowed.”

October 26, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Tracey and Pete's Stories: We still dance in the kitchen. We put on our Country and Western music and dance around the island, usually on a Sunday morning.

“Working from home, if you’re interested in the environment then turn off the video. It demands a lot more capacity.”

October 15, 2020November 8, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Bev, Nickie and Emily's Stories: It’s very rare, as a lawyer, that you have to deal with a proper force majeure and that’s been very interesting.

“I did enjoy going on the BBC, although I thought I made a right boob of it.”

October 14, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Jim's Story: I think it’s wonderful that they all took notice, I couldn’t believe it.

“Wearing the PPE hood meant I had a constant wooshing noise in my ears, as well as trying to listen to the hand-over or my patients’ vital signs. It was claustrophobic and exhausting.”

October 9, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 1 Comment

Abi's Story: But things like the village leaving flowers on my doorstep? Hell yeah, that made such a difference to me.

“I suppose I’d say, with St Paul, that with whatever situation I find myself in, I’ve learnt therewith to be content.”

October 1, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 1 Comment

Alan's Story: Mary and I met when I was... probably sixteen? I guess we’ve now been together more than sixty years.

“Whenever there’s been a disaster, in re-forming the pieces one does have the opportunity to make the world better.”

September 23, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 1 Comment

Imani's Story: Although I think probably the hardest thing for young people is wondering, ‘Am I ever going to have sex again?'

“Re-opening in July, we’d worked out we’d lose £60,000 by the end of the year.”

September 16, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Emma-Jayne and Michal's Stories: But when we see what's happened to friends in the trade, we know we're the lucky ones.

“I was so worried, thinking we’d kill each other. But it was all actually ok.”

September 8, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 2 Comments

Elise's Story: We're a strange bunch really. We do fit in but we're always... we're not rural, we're not second homers, who are we?

“Although I feel that Covid took my business away from me, at the same time I feel it’s what we needed.”

September 4, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Tracey and Holly's Stories: I have been very materialistic - very orientated towards earning money to provide, to give the kids as much as I could. The virus has made me think, actually there's more important things than work.

“I’m probably the best-known opera singer ever to come out of Barnsley”

August 27, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 1 Comment

John's Story: Sadly, I think that the opera I knew won't exist post Covid. No more spending £5 million on a new production of just four or five shows.

“Having to do everything on our own has made us feel empowered as new parents.”

August 25, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / 2 Comments

Juno's Story: I was on a ward that was eerily quiet, with every person I saw wearing full PPE. So I was really touched when a nurse took her mask off at the doorway so that I could see just one person's face.

“Now I’m on the bandwagon, I’m ready to make more banners.”

August 21, 2020November 16, 2020 / Jess Morency / Leave a comment

Sarah's Story: Lockdown has made me stronger. I've always been a person who'd say yes to everything, but now I've also learnt the benefits of saying no.

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