We go out together every morning to exercise. It’s the highlight of the day. With boys aged five and seven, we need an empty, wide-open space for running, tag, football and playing Tickle Monster. There aren’t that many options nearby, and so we alternate between several sparse sports fields. The grown-ups yearn for something more interesting; who’d have thought our local National Trust parks would suddenly seem so exotic?

Writing your life story – or part of it – could provide a wonderful project while the country is in lockdown.

Those in self-isolation should “take Shakespeare’s example” and use the time to put pen to paper, suggests Dame Esther Rantzen. When Shakespeare was quarantined during the plague it is said he wrote King Lear.