With UK Lockdown still (mostly) in effect and Covid_19 still being a force throughout the world, the BBC recently encouraged it’s readers and viewers to send them their last normal photo. A #lastnormalphoto hashtag was born and a trend was soon in full effect, with plenty of people contributing their own memories.
In March earlier this year my fiancée (!) and I were in Edinburgh a week before things realy started happening in the UK, and there was no real sense of impending change whatsoever. It was still a problem countries away, or so our government treated it. Our trip away was travelling on public transport, having brunch out, seeing alt-rock band ‘Trail of Dead live in very crowded venue, and visiting museums and galleries. Pretty fun, normal stuff, and a great means of celebrating our newly engagement.
I recorded lots of the trip while we were away, more for recollection than anything else, but ive made a big video of it all and uploaded it over on my YouTube channel. It’s only two months ago, but with all the recent changes it now feels so much longer. It’s happy memories, but it’s sad too, with everything that’s happened since. Most of all, it’s baffling seeing big spaces and groups of people together that we presumably wont see again for a while. Strange times indeed.