Historians will soon start recording how we coped during the recent Covid epidemic, for future generations to absorb.
Villagers at Kidlington, however, are one step ahead of everyone - a booklet, Kidlington, Our Village in Lockdown, has already been published.
Brian Higgins and Norma Aubertin-Potter have pulled together an array of contributors to explain how they tackled the epidemic.
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There are personal accounts, poems and odes and plenty of pictures, showing how families in England’s largest village kept going.
There is plenty of humour, too. Postman Russell Saunders cheered his customers by wearing a different ‘Super Hero’ outfit every day for a week to raise money and morale for the NHS.
Russell, a postman for 21 years, put a smile on everyone’s face and provided entertainment for children on his rounds.
He set himself a target of £500, but ended the week with a total of £2,357.43.
His outfits consisted of The Hulk, Flash, Captain America, Mutant Ninja Turtle, Superman and Spider Man.
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Brian Higgins poetically describes how during lockdown, silence descended on the village.
“No noise from the traffic
Or noise from the air
You could sit in the garden
And relax in a chair.
Relax with the birds
Who were singing their chords
Far away from the bustling hordes
This short silence was golden
And good for the brain
Helping us all from going insane."
Norma Aubertin-Potter reflects on how she faced a ‘baptism of fire’ - meeting the challenges of Zoom meetings.
She writes: “For one who had never heard of ‘Zoom’ and having limited experience on a computer, this was a very steep learning curve.”
However, having mastered the technique, she then faced other hurdles - listening to speakers on screen, she was often distracted by flowers and ceramics behind them or fell asleep and snored.
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The book also features people who went out of their way to help fellow villagers during the pandemic.
Andrew and Lisa Morgan, who run Morgan Optometry in Oxford Road, supported their local community by delivering repaired or replacement spectacles on their bicycles.
Meanwhile, Lewis Hensley, 44, and Matt Grant, 47, turned the clock back to their days as newspaper delivery boys.
During the pandemic, they relived their boyhood experience by delivering the Oxford Mail and The Oxford Times to homes around the village.
Mr Grant said: “We are keeping people in touch with what’s going on with coronavirus.”
Villager Jenny Higgins ends the book praising families in Kidlington for the “resourceful and resilient” way they tackled the epidemic and expressing hopeful signs for the future.
She writes: “The wartime slogan was ‘keep calm and carry on’ and I think most people in the UK did. After all, this is what we British do!”
The 112-page book, which costs £10, is available from Kidlington Historical Society at kanddhs@yahoo.co.uk
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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
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