Shouldn't

You shouldn't have

If you hadn't

I wouldn't have

I didn't

You did

I did not

Oh yes you did

I didn't mean

You did

not

did

not

did

you

DID

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE

YOU SHOULDN'T

YOU SHOULDN'T

DONT

DONT

NO MORE

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The pandemic was a difficult time for everyone in the world. Very few escaped its consequences. Here in the UK during lockdowns, people in care homes, flats without outdoor spaces and those in prisons, including young offenders institutions, must have felt the restrictions particularly acutely. At its nadir, I think we were only allowed out once a day for exercise and were not allowed to sit on benches in the park or lie on the grass in the summer. Children's playgrounds were taped off.

It was a terrible thing to hear and read that domestic violence and in particular, violence against children, had increased.

Even those of us lucky enough to live in places where we had enough rooms to be separate and on our own should we need to, with an outdoor space or garden to go and breathe fresh air should we long to, got very sad, even depressed and the relentless daily reporting by the government on the daily death toll added to this general mood of depression I remember. 

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