Deliveroo riding in a pandemic
Diary of a cycle courier in pandemic Bristol
About me
I am a cycle courier riding for Deliveroo and Uber in Bristol. Here is my diary of delivering takeways in a lockdown
blog posts
- And in other news…TS Eliot said that April is the cruellest month, but this January might be the longest of months, in this the darkest winter of our soul. I pray for the optimism of April, the new growth and we’ll emerge blinking into the light, cowed and ready for regenerating the broken bones of our society. IContinue reading “And in other news…”
- Merry Christmas! from Queenbot and the Brexit islandersSomeone told me that Athens is the place where your usual coping strategies reach their limits, and I don’t know if that’s true but 2020 might have been the year that our dreams withered away in the face of sheer chaos. Lulu Miller writes in her book Why Fish Don’t Exist that chaos inevitably makesContinue reading “Merry Christmas! from Queenbot and the Brexit islanders”
- lessons learned from a life less travelled in lockdown BristolIt’s over. It’s not over. i left Bristol last week and i cried when i said goodbye to my housemate and the dog in anticipation of the separation anxiety that will ensue without the latter bounding into my room every morning to lick my face. After seven long months of lockdown and the aftermath inContinue reading “lessons learned from a life less travelled in lockdown Bristol”