When Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown on March 23, 2020, in an attempt to curb rising cases of coronavirus, few realised just how much would change. The past two years have seen people lose friends, family members and jobs, while for others it has marked new beginnings. As Wales prepares to lift most remaining Covid rules on Monday, March 28, most of our lives have already changed forever.
When Simon Turner reached his lowest point back in May 2020, he never would have dreamed how his life would turn around. Two months into the first lockdown, the former scaffold estimator was suffering from serious mental health issues having been put on furlough from his old job and home schooling his three daughters.
"It was not knowing how long furlough was going to be, and balancing that with home schooling my kids at the time," he said. Things reached a head in May of that year when Simon intended to take his own life. If it hadn't been for a huge stroke of fortune that day, things might have been very different.
