In and around a London lockdown. A Cartoon Diary by Pidge.

 Some people resigned themselves to the fact that travel to foreign parts was too risky and they therefore had to stay at home but then it was necessary to keep up appearances: It was very hot in England then.

 But there was a potential cost to socialising. People experiencing COVID  symptoms were supposed to inform the authorities of the people that they have been in contact with and they would be asked self isolate for 14 days which seemed to be a heavy price for a pint even after three months of going without:

 The easing of the lockdown in May which permitted the meeting up of only small socially distant groups gave way to laxer observance as groups expanded and distances shrunk and by late June it was common to see larger groups enjoying the ‘take away’ beers that the more enterprising pubs were selling and adherence to the two metre rule was evaporating. 

The lockdown begun on the 20th of March was eased in May so that people in one household were able to meet another as long as social distancing was respected.  The easing of lockdown was accompanied by good weather and people made the most of it.

 By the time the value of R was been judged to reach a level sufficiently safe for lockdown to be eased some became nostalgic for the novel experience through which they had been living and which was about to end for them:

 In isolation some became really desperate:

 Many tried to look for positive effects of the crisis. In particular in the quieter environment created by the almost total absence of traffic Nature was making a comeback as people were experiencing things  that they had never heard before: