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Covid –19 Lockdowns

23rd March 2025 | Letters

When the first Covid-19 lockdown was announced I, in complete shock, unsure how I was going to fill my days. Previously I had enjoyed lots of various volunteering roles and meeting friends for coffee, lunch, etc allowing me to structure my week in a very fulfilling way. I felt that walking, gardening, reading, the search of tackling all of those tasks around the house and garden that previously there didn’t seem to be time for (in my case painting garden fences and the inside of cupboards) wasn’t going to be enough to sustain my wellbeing.

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 Covid reading

23rd March 2025 | Letters

During lockdown Kibworth Community Library home-delivered over 2000 books to people of all ages across Beauchamp, Harcourt, Smeeton and Foxton. All books were donated by our lovely customers and all were returned (plus several hundred more). We had to buy a shed to store them all in.

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 Covid memories

23rd March 2025 | Letters

I saw your plea for memories of Covid in the last Kibworth & District Chronicle. My experience had a deep low and a great high. The low was that a close friend of mine was diagnosed with throat cancer shortly before Covid struck. He was undergoing radiotherapy, so his immune system was destroyed. He caught Covid - pre-vaccine - in hospital and it killed him in three days, he was only in his sixties.

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