Love in lockdown
October 2021:
There are two sides to every story and this is Tom and Mary’s. They were interviewed separately for this publication.
Tom: We’d only been seeing each other for a few weeks.
Mary: We had been together for a couple of months when coronavirus arrived in the UK.
Tom: We didn’t meet online, like most people these days. We met in a Tesco Metro.
Mary: We both reached for the same tin of Heinz baked beans. I know it sounds crazy but it felt like love at first sight.
Tom: I looked up and saw this beautiful redhead. Late 20s, big green eyes, little black dress.
Mary: He said I could have the last tin of beans if I went for a drink with him.
She said yes. A few weeks later there were pictures on the news of empty supermarket shelves. People were panic buying. I knew it was only going to get worse. We’d
