I live in a house with no windows facing the road - a part house, upside down and back to front, shared with a business on the front. After moving in and dumping my stuff, I hunkered down for a year, hidden, I felt, from the world.
The first week of Thursday night NHS clapping I stayed inside, no-one out there, I believed, with whom to join in.
The second week I stuck my head out the living room velux and heard clapping – lots of clapping – and cheers and pots and pans and fireworks. No idea where from, but from somewhere.
The third week I ventured anxiously out the gate, stood at the end of the driveway and found … two neighbours I didn’t know I had. We’ve increased in number, week by week. Six of us this Thursday.
I live in a part house, upside down and back to front, no
windows facing the road. Lockdown opened
a door for me, brought me out of the shadows, reconnecting me to the world.
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