I read this lovely Francesca Melandri advisory to the UK from Italy here just about an hour ago and made some parallel notes in my diary. Adding and taking away and making some thoughts dance to my tunes through.

Given that in India we are in our nascent Covid testing and locking down in days, I thought I'd share this list with anyone. Narrow that anyone down a bit, I think this will be for any other 29 year old woman living in a comfortable home of her own making, preferably with someone she loves, hoping to make through this with lived experiences and words stitched to the last bit of paper left in the house.

This is day 23 of unofficial lockdown for my flatmate—my partner in life—and me. It's been a long and tiring month that just didn't seem to end when it began. We struggled through the partner's chicken pox, then bouts of fever and pox scare for me. Our cleaning lady and cook were with us through the first half of this, and we have trudged through the other half with one another.