How are you all doing in lockdown? Wow your lives have changed a lot more than mine!
All of a sudden you can't travel, lots of you can't go to work, schools are shut along with pubs, restaurants, theatres etc. For the first seven weeks you were not allowed to meet anybody from another household or any family.
It all became a dogs life from March 24th! I have never seen so many people out walking, cycling & running. Me an' Luth have discovered lots of new walks from home.
Here is my take on it so far.
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| Boris telling you to 'Stay Home - Protect the NHS - Save Lives' |
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| Day one - time to start those maintenance jobs |
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| Tiring work |
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| Our first taste of lockdown. 3pm and the place is deserted, the Main Road would normally be really busy |
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| A fresh deck |
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| One of the downsides of lockdown is that a lot of people have discovered my woods, hopefully by next year they'll have forgotten about them |
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| Getting ready for some nice weather |
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| It was really quiet during the first few days |
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| Bell Lane deserted |
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| One of our many walks which took in Foxhall Stadium |
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| We're on a 6 mile walk to get a Sunday paper! |
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| The biggest minus for me an' Luth was knowing that we couldn't go out in the car - so no trips to the seaside and you know how much we love the water |
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| A freak hail storm |
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| Walking over the empty A12 |
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| When will The Red Lion reopen? |
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| Oh well we tried! The boot was open so we jumped in |
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| Social distancing and hand sanitizer a must for shopping. Duncan's Butchers & Bakery at Martlesham is just over a mile from home, it has now become part of a five mile walk |
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| Who needs to see a leopard in a tree! |
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| Me an' Luth' have got our own Strava account now, we used it to do a 10 day challenge to fundraise for the NHS |
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| Here's our badge |
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| King kong |
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| Another day, another deck! Pressure washed but no sealed as the shops are shut |
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| Like many other gardens during lockdown ours is all tidy and looking good |
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| Cor that's not fair! |
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| Milsoms on a lovely day and not a soul in sight |
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| Another walk for bread |
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| Suffolk Police Headquarters |
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| The gorse is looking good on Martlesham Heath |
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| This is what is left of the RAF Martlesham Heath runway |
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| We found lot's of new trails and walks from home but they didn't all work out well |
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| A couple of fences later |
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| Luther practicing his 2 metre distancing |
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| The former USAF transmitter station at Foxhall used in WW2 and the Cold War. Rumour has it that there is a massive secret bunker underneath, which is why it's still surrounded by fields. |
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| April was like the middle of summer |
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| Us dogs don't have to worry about social distancing |
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| Another trip to the bakers! |
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| Still no traffic about |
It's now Easter and we're quite happy being 'Locked down Labs', we're getting longer walks and more attention than normal. Then I find out that we should have been going on a road trip to Snowdonia, all of a sudden I got an inclination of what you lot are going through, missing out on the good things in life. Hopefully we'll get to go there when life gets back to normal.
