Dear Diary: How Will We Remember The Year The World Paused ?

By Katie Strick in MSN MSN Lifestyle.

Calories consumed: 2,250 (mostly rosé). Minutes spent queueing for the supermarket: 28. Kilometres run in hour of state-mandated exercise: 5.3 (so I could tell Instagram I’d donated to the NHS). Zoom calls completed: seven (if we include the school-mates quiz on Houseparty).

It’s funny, trying to summarise your day in five lines. It’s even funnier trying to do it in the middle of a national lockdown. Suddenly the mundane details that would never have made it into last year’s entry (wore a sundress! Called Grandma! Cooked a roast!) often become the most thrilling part of the day.

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