Donna Ashworth

Yeah, I was just saying earlier today, I am a lockdown baby.

You know, I'm a pivot person who just started something completely different in lockdown and changed my whole life.

I moved as well.

from England back home to Scotland in lockdown, well, in between the two lockdowns.

When you were allowed to.

Changed career.

My husband changed career because we were out of jobs because of the lockdown.

So completely, this is a lockdown pivot moment now.

that I'm still very much enjoying.

So my husband and I owned a children's play centre, a very large, you know, with all the ball pools and the noise and chaos constantly, which, you know, we thought would be a lovely family business to run.

But what we didn't realise is seven days a week.

And you only close on New Year and, you know, Christmas Day.

It's very, very full on.

So we were doing that and we were ready to move on from it after 10 years.

I was ready to move on from it after a year.

But we loved the staff as well.

And we loved, you know, the custom.

It was joyful in many ways, but it was a lot.

But of course, lockdown, it was the first thing to go.

Children's play centres had to close immediately because they are germ.