Covid Living

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...

March 2020 and panic buying for loo rolls as lockdown began. I made it back home, sat down and, like thousands of other university students, tried to study.   It’s been tough. The assignments have...

The Staycation London podcast presents Episode 1 "How Fans Affiliate With Football" with Tariq Taylor, Alfie Kaye, Ethan West and Edwin Richardson. https://soundcloud.com/user-11375464/staycation-london-podcast-how-fans-affiliate-with-football/s-cIjbMO09rxf

Football, for many of us, is way more than ‘just a game’: it’s a way of getting away from day to day troubles. Whether you have an Old Trafford season ticket or turn up...

I have an excuse. I had surgery two months before the first lockdown, sending me into a spiral. What was I going to do? How could I see my physio? And, when would this...

Edwin Richardson says you should race over to visit as soon as you can With the pandemic and lockdown, I decamped to my home – very close by – nation that has been living Covid...

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...

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...

With 38 hours to deadline I’ve four un-started articles and a few to edit. In those hours I must also sleep, and fast – it’s Ramadan you see.   But in extremis I found a...

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