Date: 2021-02-04

2020 has gone by very fast, and I've somehow just remembered I had a blog! I haven't done anything particularly remarkable in 2020, but here's a summary of what I've been up to.

The year started well, like every year ever, with my birthday. I didn't know it at the time, but this would be the last party with friends in a very long time!

February came, and a couple of cool things happened:

• We discovered an amazing bagel bakery with delicious salt beef.
• We spent over a week in Mauritius, around the same time that COVID-19 started hitting a few countries in Europe.

With March, the first lockdown came. Prior to this time, I would have worked from home once a week. Changing to doing it every day had its challenges at the beginning, but I think that we all got used to it fairly quickly.

Lockdown didn't only bring continuous WFH, it also brought a bunch of other great things:

• I started running a lot.
• I started having my daily beer (between April and September!).
• We baked a few bread loaves.
• We did a bit of outdoor DIY – we restored our garden table and chairs, and an old bicycle that we inherited with the flat.
• I grew the longest beard I've ever had – I miss it :(

By August lockdown was over, and we were able to meet with some people again, so we organised a couple of small barbeques, and we got to use our recently refurbished garden furniture.

Before Summer was over, we managed to escape London for a few days to visit our family in Poland.

In October, it was time to visit Spain, which was the highlight of Autumn. Luckily we managed to spend 10 days over there, which were very needed. We ate as much as we could, and I remember it took me weeks until I was back at my pre-Spain trip running speed.

When we arrived in London, our 15-day quarantine overlapped with the beginning of a new lockdown, that lasted until the beginning of December. I honestly don't remember anything from November, but December was the month when we received a couple of amazing Christmas packages from our families in Poland and Spain :)

On the last day of 2020, we went to Hampstead Heath for a long walk.

Bonus picture of our Christmas tree, which at the time of writing this, is still up (we like it too much).

That was 2020. All things considered, we had a pretty good 2020. We both got to keep our jobs and keep busy for the entire year. We and our friends and families have been healthy, so there's nothing we can complain about. Let's hope 2021 will be better though.