Dogs are mostly having a good Covid. Ours certainly is. Lola has gone from being a cuddly pet who simply brightened up our lives to being at the very heart of the family. Knows so too.
It’s not that we formally welcomed or encouraged her. But one day – I can’t be sure which one – she seemed to have bestowed on herself all the rights and privileges homo sapien Coughlans took for granted.
Things like which couch she sprawled on, bed she dozed on, what food she ate and what company she kept.
Lola no longer takes it as a given that she lives in the kitchen, her traditional place of domicile, while the rest of us go about our business elsewhere.
The programme is so well structured that it’s really gradual. You just feel stronger and fitter and mentally stronger as well. It was fantastic. We had nobody else around us. It wasn’t as if we could go away for the weekend and we just did it every day at 7 am,” she says. Marie Therese has recently signed up for the yearly app from Joe Wicks and is looking forward to continuing her fitness journey from the comfort of her own home.
“For me it’s so much better than the gym. I joined a gym before and it just wasn’t for me. Before I started this programme I couldn’t do a single press-up. I can do eight now! I never did a burpee before in my life. At the end of two minutes I can now do 24.