The Rory's Stories Lockdown Lookback
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Rules, Rules, Rules -- The start -- The early days -- Whispers and WhatsApps -- Another level -- The 2km rule -- Covid and curtain-twitchers -- The news bulletin -- Garda checkpoints -- Panic at the supermarket -- Holding in a cough and a sneeze -- Covid tests -- Essential vs non-essential -- Getting the chop -- Chapter 2: Home and Family Life -- (Hardly) working from home -- Home-schooling -- The Leaving Cert -- Lockdown cooking -- Songs from the shed -- Normal People and abnormal TV -- The TikTok phenomenon -- Online shopping sprees -- Staycations -- Lockdown Lucy -- The snip -- Chapter 3: Social Life (Or Lack Thereof) -- Small talk -- Bottle-bank banter -- A cocktail for disaster -- The perfect pint -- Dining out -- Bags of cans and takeaway pints -- The €9 rule -- Takeaway coffee vans -- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom -- Bingo in the flats -- Clapping for the nurses -- The Meath ladies -- Chapter 4: The Hard Times -- Our Covid experience -- Mental health -- Chapter 5: Me, Myself and I - Self-Improvement -- Home workouts -- Sea swimming -- DIY -- Writing sketches -- My Ultimate Hell Week experience -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- About the Author -- About Gill Books.