00:00 Four years on from the first lockdown, what were you doing this time four years ago? Do
00:10 you remember?
00:11 Yeah, I was in March now, aren't we? So I was just about to finalise my nursing degree.
00:17 I was actually impressed and then so I was just going into nursing. You know, what do
00:24 you call it? Head first into nursing in the deep water, yeah. But I was so well looked
00:30 after by the NHS.
00:32 It was like unbelievable. It was like, this can't be real. It was very much like, it happened
00:39 so quickly. It was very much just a shock. And I was more worried for like family members.
00:44 We continued working right the way through lockdown, working online. I worked in a college,
00:50 so we saw our students online and we continued doing that. So yeah, it did change our practices
00:55 and I think we saved money doing that, to be honest. But looking back, yeah, it was
01:01 quite a scary time, wasn't it? At the beginning of March, you were working offshore. We didn't
01:06 know if you would get stuck offshore for the whole duration. And at the time we were told
01:11 12 weeks.
01:12 I was home. I didn't catch it, but I wasn't allowed out.
01:17 And what did you do in lockdown to keep busy?
01:21 Just watching the telly.
01:23 I think the first lockdown was a novelty. Also, the weather was very good as well. So
01:27 I spent a lot of time outside in the garden. I was lucky in that I wasn't furloughed. I
01:31 was able to work from home for the entirety of both lockdowns. I would say that the second
01:35 one was much harder because it was in the winter. And frankly, by the time we reached
01:39 Christmas in the second one, I was pretty much in despair. So if we could possibly never
01:45 go back there, that would be good.
01:47 I kept working because I had a job I could do remotely. And I thought, we didn't know
01:52 where Covid was going. It could have been going anywhere, you know. We've been the edge
01:55 of the end of humanity. But I thought it would be lucky to have a job. So I kept going.
02:01 We were really scared at first. Everybody did as they were told. I think the older ones
02:07 found it more scary than the younger ones.
02:10 OK, this time four years ago, I was working at my job. I never got any time off in between.
02:17 We were key workers. So I worked the whole time. Now I'm a student in Glasgow. It's much
02:23 better.
02:24 Just abiding the rules like everybody else. And looking back, maybe it wasn't such a great
02:30 idea with all this mask and that. Didn't really do a lot.
02:34 It was an absolute awful time. My daughter was supposed to get married. They had to put
02:40 their wedding on hold. They'd got a house. And they just managed to get the keys on the
02:47 day that the lockdown came in. Or else they wouldn't have been able to get the completion.
02:53 They should have locked down earlier. Should have done. You know, and that's the government.
02:58 And it's a time that people will never forget.
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