On 20 March, the four governments shut all schools, restaurants, pubs, indoor entertainment venues and leisure centres, with some exceptions.On 23 March, the UK government imposed a lockdown on the whole population, banning all "non-essential" travel and contact with people outside one's home (including family and partners), and shutting almost all businesses, venues, facilities, amenities and places of worship. People were told to keep apart in public. Police were empowered to enforce the lockdown, and the Coronavirus Act 2020 gave the government emergency powers not used since the Second World War.

During this lockdown to keep occupied Gail began to do various jigsaw puzzles. Similarly our friends John and Carol also did various jigsaw puzzles.
Steve made research on the Steve-Gail family tree.

Every Saturday evening all of our local family members joined together by way of video links using things like "Skype" or "Zoom" and a few other similar software packages to hold a weekly quiz. Every weekday (Monday to Friday) at 7pm our Community Hub Whatsapp group would play a single game of bingo.
On Thursday evenings Gail would also play online bingo games hosted by the Dogs Rescue Organisation.