Moreen Simpson: Turns out lockdown's not without certain freedoms

Moreen Simpson: Turns out lockdown’s not without certain freedoms
By Moreen Simpson
© Helen Hepburn
Spik aboot stress. Not sooner are we unlocking, than I’m suddenly appreciating all the relaxing “freedoms” of being locked.
Free to go about every day without make-up. Well, nae quite. Not if I dinna want to fear the life oot o’ the gadgies that do my deliveries. Asda food, Amazon parcels, my quine’s never-ending Next. Hunners o’ Hermes. Not to mention the hunkie postie – never oot o’ shorts – who rings my bell (so to speak) whenever there’s a letterbox-defying parcel.
How could I open the door to them barefaced? Like one of the zombies from Thriller? So I slap on a bittie foundation to hide the purply blotches and dark circles. We used to call it Pan-Stick. A shilling from Woolies? Never a better cosmetic. Nowadays, I also have the guts to go eye-naturelle. Me who’d once barely venture oot without half a coal mine plastered on my upper lids. Now, naked-liddedly shadow-less, I’m a shadow of my pre-pandemic sellie.

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