06:00 – Wake up early, listen to the 5 Live Wake up to Money and then the breakfast show.

08:00 – Have breakfast, ponder what the day will have in store, who knows, put on the BBC News channel to get the latest developments.

07:30 – Wake up, listen to 5 Live Breakfast. Drift off back to sleep.

08:30 – Hear Daisy barking downstairs, better get up and check her, she probably wants to go out. Daisy is fine, so I had breakfast, a bowl of Cheerios, toast and a brew.

07:30 – wake up, listen to 5 Live Breakfast

08:30 – GMB, talking about the Emergency hospital setup on Excel, approx 2000 beds. That is frightening.

05:15 – BBC 5 Live “Wake up to Money”

06:00 – BBC 5 Live “Breakfast”

Up until today the Coronavirus crisis had just been a very worrying news story, something I was following, watching, listening to the daily news reports, expecting it to affect me and my family at some point but unsure exactly when. Well, today was the day it hit, the 23^rd March 2020.