He means to me this year is a community side of things people come together. They had shared stories...

I’ve just received my degree results and I’ve got a first! Throughout the pandemic my studies have kept me focused, providing me with the stability I needed to weather the storm...

Today I've been organising a small get together with family and friends in anticipation of my upcoming birthday. I feel really excited but anxious to see people again, and it's draining just thinking about what restrictions might be like then! I think like many, I'm craving normality and just trying to make the most out of a bad situation at the moment...

I have really struggled to share so much lately as we really have been battered by a lot of emotionally challenging experiences. I just want to say though, the Covid Realities project is helping me such a lot! I feel so empowered, sharing my and others’ experiences safely within the project...

We managed to go out for a cheap lunch yesterday for the first time since before Christmas. Just felt so good to get out and do something different...

My mood is starting to creep up as the restrictions are starting to lift. For every day we step closer to some sort of normality I strip closer to getting back to myself...

Puppy Stanley arrived on the 5th of May and he is already making life better, we have all bonded very quickly to his little smushy face and he seems to love us too...

I’m glad I had the family time and I am thankful for that as it was scarce before.undefined...

I am a disabled lone parent on legacy benefits, so have been excluded from the £20 per week uprating of Universal Credit introduced by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak last year as the lockdown started to bite...

The shops have opened today for the first time since Christmas Eve. I was up and out for 8...