Become Durable

In level 4 lockdown deliveries and post is all that we have to break the monotony. I have become fascinated by the way that my parcels are labelled, packaged and treated by the couriers. My hair styling products were labelled - dangerous, my new computer equipment although quite fragile was packed extremely robustly, and wasn’t labelled fragile. Apparently my new chair was packed in a way that had been ‘drop tested’ to ensure it arrived whole and functional. I have been fortunate that nothing has arrived smashed by the delivery process as some people have experienced.

For those of us working hard throughout the global pandemic we can feel a bit like those packages. We can feel thrown around, battered by events, needs and organisational systems outside our control. In the past few months we have had a Level Four lockdown, a never ending level three lockdown, floods, a terrorist…