Eleanor Neale

She was so incredibly happy.

And then in walks Mr. Right.

She met and fell for a man named Josh who was equally as ambitious, intelligent and accomplished as her.

It was a perfect match and actually he only lived just down the road from her.

It was an absolutely ideal situation and by all accounts Sarah was loving life.

But soon, disaster would strike.

Not to Sarah or Josh specifically, but to the whole entire world, actually.

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread and overnight, daily life changed for billions of people.

I'm not entirely sure how Sarah herself spent the first lockdowns,

We had at least three separate lockdown periods here in the UK over 2020 and 2021.

Honestly, it all feels like just one big blur now, doesn't it?

And mind you, the rules and regulations here in the UK were constantly shifting and it was so hard to keep up.

One minute we were told not to leave our homes unless it was absolutely necessary.

And then the next, we were being encouraged to go out to restaurants for the eat out to help out scheme to keep the economy going.

And then when that inevitably made the spread of the virus worse, it was back to a lockdown.

It felt like no one knew how to handle this, especially our fucking government, sorry.

And then there was the concept of having a bubble, which was like one or two people that you were allowed to meet up with inside.

And the rules around your bubble were even more vague.

Quite frankly, everyone was doing the whole bubble thing differently and a lot of people were doing it wrong, but actually no one really knew how to do it right.

And by March, 2021, it had been just over a year of these