Pets during and after the pandemic
Fergal Hale-Brown talks to animal welfare officer Kia Newbould-McFarlane about how she started her career, what the pandemic has meant for pets and what the future holds for pandemic puppies
https://soundcloud.com/user-869684735/animal-welfare-interview
Policing lockdown – a retired copper’s review
Will Vincent talks to a retired policemen and get's his views on everything from BLM protests, lockdown policing and how people see the police today
https://soundcloud.com/user-28992473/retired-policeman-podcast
I broke lockdown law for football
Jumping over fences, walking through holes in gates, broken locks on pitches, all to play football.
Why?
For the love of the game. The constant need for him to get better, feeling as if he was...
Lockdown changed me for the better
https://youtu.be/RZ_K9TUaUcA
Lock down, locked out, locked in. Imagine being 22 then turning 23 in the blink of an eye and spending a year under national restrictions. Being told what to do, where to go and...
Resilience on the pandemic ward
Throughout the pandemic, NHS workers were provided with a variety of techniques to “de-stress”. Articles were published on strategies to increase our “resilience”. Continually trying to be “resilient”, however, can be a heavy burden...
My perfect walk
Walking is something I used to do as a means of transportation, as simply the easiest and cheapest way of getting from Point A to Point B. But since Covid has confined us to...
Watching football under Covid
Football fans around the world have had to adapt. Covid-19 has left fans being unable to attend stadiums and having to watch or listen to teams play in empty stadiums on the TV, radio...
“Imagine being given a cancer diagnosis during a pandemic”
The last year of the pandemic has been very tough. I was furloughed, made redundant and my University lectures went online only.
But the worst thing by far was finding out my mum had been...
Stay-at-home-smoothies
I’ll be honest; many times over, I’ve treated myself to smoothies from the shops. We’ve all been there, wonderful colours, great sounding ingredients and it’s meant to be good for you right?
Wrong, on the...
Dogs against loneliness
The number of pets in London doubled during lockdown. Dog ownership increased 84% in 2020 alone. There is now a pandemic puppy phenomenon and thieves are roaming the capital looking to make thousands from...