Those months of total lockdown made me take a closer look at the local countryside and what was all around us.
I took photos of the fields, the empty roads, the wildlife and the flowers and just about anything else that took my fancy and, with my daily blog site launched, I now had the vehicle for my ramblings (both in word and deed).
I continued to produce Hethersett Herald each month and am very proud that this publication can now be viewed as a pretty full history of what was an extraordinary part of our village's history.
Those Heralds are all still available in my archive at www.hethersettherald.eeebly.com.
Yesterday I mentioned the comments my blog received in those early days. They were heart-warming and on occasions reduced me to tears. I had people telling me that my blog was the reason they got up in the morning. I also had requests to take specific photographs for people that were unable to get out. This I was only too happy to do.
Actually, writing this makes me want to revisit those early blogs and that's something I will do. Lots of them are on my daily blog Facebook page but to find them entails scrolling down through hundreds. Probably a better way to view them is to go to my website www.peterowensteward.weebly.com and click the blog tab. The blogs are then indexed in month order on the right-hand side of the page.
The comments I received gave me the energy and wish to just carry on and on and on ad nauseam and so the blogs that you read yesterday, are reading today and, hopefully, will be reading tomorrow, next week and next month are a product of lockdown and a wish to do something different which just happens to be the motto of my home city of Norwich. And that takes me to another point which I will expand on tomorrow.