Marga: ‘For five months we were in the same space. … spent more time with my children (29, 26, 24, 22), living together, since they were little.’ London, UK
Marga is a Spanish, working mother in her 50s. She is divorced and over the past five years she has lived with her four grown up children in a rented, three bedroom flat in Central London. During lockdown 1 she treasured spending time at home as a family and she shared a lovely photo of three of the siblings hanging out together. However, five adults congregating in their small living room inevitably led to wear and tear of her vintage furniture; ‘the original fabric ... did not resist 5 months of lockdown using it 24/7!’ She has rediscovered and enjoyed playing her records, but she is less keen on the pigeons; ‘they make a lot of noise’. Because of the closure of local restaurants and cafes the birds have been foraging for food on balconies.
Having to travel abroad for her work during the pandemic has been challenging, as the collage she made above illustrates. There were the logistics of booking cabs and compiling the necessary documentation to make it through the strict border controls, but she especially expressed her shock at how incredibly expensive multiple PCR tests were - a receipt from December 2020 shows that she paid £149 for a test to travel to Paris.
