Video chats and distanced picnics: how we caught the love bug in lockdown

Dating in a pandemic has very different challenges, as these brave adventurers discovered

For Martina Piercy, 54, an occupational therapist from Wellington in Somerset, going into lockdown at the start of a new relationship was really upsetting". We had been dating for six to eight weeks before the pandemic started, so the idea of either living with Tony or not seeing him was difficult," she said.