Lockdown

What to do if you are alone at Christmas

Lucia Dore and Carole Railton discuss the options you could consider if you are “home alone” this Christmas. It’s that time of year,...

How you cope with being in a lockdown when you are single and a senior

Carole Railton (frsa), cofounder of Behavioural Shift, explains how she deals with a lockdown. Earlier this month I appeared in “The...

Red Button

People over 75 are suffering again with the BBC’s removal of its Red Button service. This allowed people in this age group to find out...

An extrovert alone

Human beings love relationships and the recent and continued social distancing has challenged this.

Stories from the pandemic: time management

We thought we would have got round to those nasty cleaning jobs we could never find the time to attend to. We will have read those books, li

Solitary confinement

These are extraordinary times and we are all suffering under lockdown. Some are locked up in small spaces with too many people and others ar

Technology in isolation

This article by Anne Mayer Bird is the first of several that she will be writing about life for the post 80s. I love the new website for...

Staying in is hard to do

by Lucia Dore Staying locked up for days on end is not easy. A day can feel like a week; a week like four. This is especially true for...