#LOCKDOWNLIFE

We wanted to capture a sense of what we are living through in Highgate during the pandemic lockdown. In words or pictures, share with us what you’re seeing, thinking or making during lockdown.

: I MADE THIS, Alicia Pivaro

: POIGNANCE, Yasmin Watts I'd like to share my figurative clay sculpture 'Poignance' made during the lockdown period with the Highgate Community.

: I MADE THIS, Fresh @ Lauderdale youth group Camera phone, experimenting with lofi ideas of torches, shadows on stairs, and documenting the times with loo roll trophies, and staying indoors.

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Fresh @ Lauderdale youth group Abstract image from camera phone of inside of window frame and blind.

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Fresh @ Lauderdale-(Youth-Group) Home made filter using sunglasses over camera lens as part of online photography youth workshop

: STORM, Al Pascall Local Quakers have been holding a weekly poetry hour online during lockdown. This is a poem by my 8-year-old niece Al.

: I MADE THIS, Eudora Pascall I’ve been sewing face masks for my family, friends, neighbours living on my street and my local faith community.

: HIDDEN HIGHGATE, Debs Today is my 99th day in isolation. Those early days of watching Spring do its thing in the park or from my window were special. It was quieter because people were happy to stay in back then. I loved watching nature unfold each week but then people came. Lots of people came. They blocked pathways, congregated, picnicked, sunbathed. They stayed. Unlike the buds, I didn't come back out. I retreated and hid. I missed my secret hiding place in the park.I still do. I took this photo in Waterlow Park on my 13th day - 30 March.

: VIEW FROM A WINDOW, Maggie Pettigrew Looking out the front at the empty street below.

: SILVER LINING, Catharine Wells

: SPRING MORNING ON THE HEATH, Maggy Meade-King

: I MADE THIS, Paul Monaghan Turkish Eggs - perfect for Saturday brunch.

: HIDDEN HIGHGATE, Sue Lamble I caught these guys having a peaceful moment off the High Street a couple of weeks ago.

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Maggy Meade-King My balcony and the city beyond - both a comfort and an inspiration during Lockdown.

: BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE, Maggy Meade-King

: WOODEN BOAT, Marc Lien I decided to build a wooden boat in a Highgate garage during lockdown. This is an 8 foot nesting Eastport Pram that can be rowed, towed or sailed. It will be cut in half with the front nesting inside the back for easy transport and storage. It has been a fun project with the kids getting involved too. All being well, we’ll get out on the Welsh Harp reservoir near Brent Cross in the next few months. In the meantime, lots more gluing, sanding and painting.

: ORIGAMI FLOWERS, Sujan Nandanwar This is an arrangement of two origami Kusudama paper flowers. The one on the left has been upcycled from old business envelopes and both have been mounted on upcycled chopsticks covered in scrap paper. Their vase has been upcycled from a soup carton with decoupage. The Kusudama are traditionally made in Japan as modular models into ball shaped ceiling ornaments for celebrations and weddings.

: LOOKING OUT OF THE KITCHEN WINDOW, Maggie Pettigrew Looking from my kitchen window towards the old wash house with a portrait painted by my daughter looking back at me.

: SCRUBS, Kirat Kaur Nandra I made 20 scrubs for key workers from old clean sanitised bedsheets collected from Talbot Road residents for the Covid-19 hot hubs in Camden & Soho. I'm now making more but these were needed quickly so I took annual leave from my city job to make them.

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Pascale Waltho

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Sue Lamble

: LIVES LOST, Danielle

: ICE CREAM, Mike Russum I scream, you scream, we all scream: Ice-cream! Have started making ice cream and waffles.

: CHICKEN SOUP WITH KNEIDLACH, Andrea Horth For the first time ever, we didn't go to my mother-in-laws for Pesach, so I had a go at making chicken soup with kneidlach myself. Room for improvement, but it felt positive to keep the tradition going...

: VIEW FROM THE BACK WINDOW, Chris Baker

: EYETEST, Anonymous Testing testing 123

: THE REGULAR MORNING WALK, Martin Adeney

: VIEW FROM HER WINDOW, Mary Williams

: Til Time Goes By, by Ruth Hazeldine To the tune of "As Time Goes By", sung Dooley Wilson in the film “Casablanca”

: VIEW FROM THE WINDOW, Andrew Riley

: TAI-ED TOGETHER AT SOUTHWOOD HALL I came into the garden to read and the class was in full swing. I was struck by how happy everyone looked. Having lived here for three years without knowing a single neighbour I found warmth, friendliness and good energy from my first class.

: VIEW FROM A WINDOW, Shirley-Hodgson

: VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, Martin Adeney Garden corner

: THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A HIGHGATE, Ruth Hazeldine A parody on “There’ll always be an England” composed by Ross Parker, Hugh Charles, Alan Mossford c. 1940, sung by Vera Lynn

Easter Story, Elsa Chaudhary

“Elsa Chaudhary is part of our “Sunday’s Cool” at Pond Square Chapel, and like all Highgate Churches at moment we’re doing Sunday School and Worship Services via a virtual platform. So our Children’s Leader put out the challenge for the kids to tell the easter Story in their own way, and Elsa put this wonderful little video together! Really creative and catches the spirit of this challenging narrative.” David EP Currie, Minister, Pond Square Chapel