'Lockdown may be easing, but coronavirus is not beaten yet'

One thing for certain is, without others, that would have been much more challenging at best and nigh impossible at worst – in that respect, no different, I suspect, than millions of others with similar thoughts.

In general terms, none of us could have coped without those magnificent front line workers who bravely kept services going, particularly at the start of the pandemic when government agencies were struggling to get to grips with a response and personal protective equipment was in short supply.

Closer to home, my close family, Mosborough Health Centre, pharmacy, Brakes and the newsagent kept me going with consistent excellent support.

Our executive team worked hard to keep colleagues safe and customers supported, trying their level best to maintain services while working remotely at home.

I've never been active on social media, but I certainly, with some trepidation, got more engaged during self isolation and saw more TV than normal and found football without fans a weird experience.

One constant was the continued controversy about VAR and frenzied efforts by pundits to maintain interest which amused me from time to time – no change there then!

One major positive effect on my morale was getting The Star every weekday at about 630am with great regularity. While on-line services are now much more in vogue, I love the tactile aspect of the paper and got addicted to it during the lockdown and read it from cover to cover.

Having to cope domestically made me a little more organised trying to replicate disciplines and routines my late loved ones had taught me and when it came to the duvet sadly often not succeeding!

However, I got better and found finding something to be cheerful about helped no end as after all if you look for misery you will surely find it.

Also learning about others in far worst situation than myself and losing their loved ones to Coronavirus made me thankful and motivated me to realise how lucky I was.

Also, as lockdown eases and we can all live, work and have leisure time activities again, we can breathe a sigh of relief .

Everybody will have learnt lessons and realise no-one is an island and we all have obligations to make Sheffield a better place to live it.

As we enjoy new freedoms, we have to be mindful Covid-19 is not beaten yet, but the learning from the first phase hopefully will help us cope better if we get a reoccurrence.

Thanks to all those who made our freedom possible while putting themselves at risk.