But lockdown has been a unique opportunity to spend time together. I actually quite like life as it is now and I’m slightly dreading it all going back to normal! It’s been great spending more time together as a family and particularly just me and the boys together. Generally I’ve been working in the morning while Kat helps them with their schoolwork and then in the afternoon she works and I look after the boys. 

We’re finding new things to do every day. We’ve been doing some cooking together - I’m trained as a chef - which has been fun. But mostly we’ve been outside, going on adventures, skipping stones, playing pooh sticks, walking as far as we can. And I’ve been teaching them how to climb outdoors, which is a very different thing to climbing at the climbing centre. 

At the climbing centre it’s very safe - you have big mats, the holds are clearly marked out. Whereas when we’re messing around in the woods, you’ve got to work out what’s going to be safe. Zac grabbed a branch the other day and it wasn’t actually attached to anything, it came away and he just started sliding. But that’s what makes it an adventure and the boys know I’m always right there to catch them.  

Lockdown has its challenges. There’s the ongoing pressure of getting enough work done to hit my targets while doing enough of the childcare that Kat can do her work. And I do look forward to getting back into the climbing centre. But for me and the boys it’s been brilliant. We talk more now, because we have time to talk more.

My feelings haven’t changed - I couldn’t love them any more than I already do - but we do hang out a lot more and I definitely want to make sure we keep that going when lockdown ends.