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 Disclaimer: In this post, I get very personal. You might find that you'll need a pack of tissues. *** In writing this blog post, I have had to steal away this period of time to do something I did not plan to do. Out of the 10 things on my to-do list for today (yes, truthfully) writing a blog post is not on there. But I am feeling inspired and inspiration has not passed my way for a very long time. Many of you do not know but I am currently out of employment due to reasons I may share in the near future. But the past 3 weeks or so have been tough. I have been applying for jobs with no response. 95% of the time, no confirmation email comes through to show they have received my application. I have been worrying and panicking wondering if I would get a job before my finances run dry. Before you begin to ask questions on why I hadn't waited till I had a job before leaving my previous job...I did. But I resigned from that job only a few days into it because I realised I was overqual...

I need to stop feeling guilty for taking the time out to write this blog post, after all I told myself yesterday that I would spend some time on my blog today! So here it is... Today I want to talk about being neighbourly...not to the people you live in close proximity to, but to everyone you might have encountered in your life, or at least those alive and present in your life at the moment. At the start of the pandemic, I quite remember a segment of the news which showed neighbours sitting outside their homes in their front yards having a conversation with a mug of tea/coffee in their hands. The news reporter said something like .... ' During these difficult times, neighbours have realised they need each other to get through these difficult times' . Today, I would argue that scene will look very different across various parts of the UK, at least in the major cities like London. I worry that people will go back to meeting up with friends, going shopping and will forget about th...