Claire Morgan 15/03/2021 Member StoriesNews

I’m feeling much better health-wise after being quite poorly in January, thank goodness and I’ve heard from my work that I might be starting back at Easter, in the hope that the tourism trade will re-open around then.  I haven’t heard about a vaccine yet, though some of my friends who are in supported accommodation have had theirs.  I should be on the priority list because of my diabetes.

I’ll look forward to that as there hasn’t been anything to do since we’ve been in lockdown from 20^th December.  I’ve been busy on Zoom and I co-hosted Electric Umbrella’s Music Machine event this week.  It was really tough as I had to ‘spotlight’ individual people and classes.  They had invited colleges and schools to join the event as well and I’ve never hosted such a large group before.  Online meetings can be tough when people talk over each other all the time! 

I am still doing the weekly bingo sessions and I was frustrated this week because I tried to use an app to share on Zoom so that participants could see the numbers (sometimes they don’t hear me when I shout them out).  I couldn’t get the app to work so I was disappointed. I’ll keep trying. 

I did drag with Electric Umbrella TV a couple of weeks ago – Ernie Sparkles and the House of Deviants (some friends of mine) were really good and we had a mini workshop on how to be a drag queen.  It’s LGBTQ+ month this month and the Insight App had a meeting this week with two drag queens too.  It was good fun.