Fiona Cullinan

I thought I’d document for posterity some reactions from tonight’s ministerial broadcast by the PM. In the past week, speculation around this announcement of the lockdown easing seemed to be accompanied by a noticeable increase in traffic, and people out and about, or flouting the guidance – for example, some of…

I’m writing this having had a major re-organise and tidy up of the office, followed by a big glass of red in the garden – you know that post-tidy meets alcohol feeling? Knackered meets sozzled? Ok so… that’s where I’m at at 9.12pm on a Saturday night. [Pause for dinner…

I woke up to the sound of someone playing a flute. It was lovely. Whoever was playing was pretty competent. We live in a kind of big quadrangle of terrace houses so sound really carries. It’s pretty considerate, considering. With a whole day off, I wanted to do another chunk…

No, not that Hamilton, this Hamilton. Here is a guest diary post from North Island, New Zealand – 36 days into lockdown – by Pete’s mother, my lovely mum-in-law, who has kindly shared her lockdown experience. We often communicate through plants so I’ve decided to illustrate her post with flowers and nature.…

I’m not sure I’ve ever had an on-the-move out of body experience before. It usually happens when I’m jetlagged or, once, when I did a Buddhist meditation and I was actually comfortable. Today it happened when I was putting the dishes away and washing the roasting tin from yesterday’s dinner.…

The May Bank Holiday Monday was today! Only it wasn’t. Not only are the days merging so no one what day it is but someone somewhere has switched the day off to Friday 8 May instead – in order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day. (Apparently this was…

It’s been quite the nature day today, although I’ve seen it through heavy-lidded eyes because after saying my sleep was ok yesterday, I slept fitfully (if at all) last night. Just surfacing from a long nap. Also I just realised it should be flora-tastic not fauna but the Haircut One…

As I witness people around me experience mental health issues – from insomnia to inertia, depression to anxiety, leaving Facebook to distraction through creative projects –as a direct result of a very real threat but also due to enforced isolation, I look at how I am coping and realise I…