Rusthall: Life During Lockdown 2020

Life During Lockdown:
Rusthall: A Picture Tells All 2020

Due to Coronavirus there was no RVA photographic competition this year but people sent their pictures in anyway to keep a record of these strange days. They don't all reflect that strangeness, some just show how much of life, and particularly nature, carried on regardless.

Boxing Day Tree
by Viv Hughes

Boxing Day Full Moon
by Viv Hughes

On the Commons December 8th I
by John Rooke

On the Commons December 8th II
by John Rooke

Halloween I
by Karen Gardner

Halloween II
by Karen Gardner

Halloween III
by Karen Gardner

September Cricket
by Karen Gardner

Let's Be Friends!
by Marilyn Myers

August Morning
by Marilyn Myers

August Evening
by Marilyn Myers

Edible Art
by Karen Gardner

I managed to grow courgettes and beetroot from seed during lockdown. After just having had major surgery, growing these became very therapeutic.
by Linda Treherne

VE Day Celebrations in Southwood Road Rusthall. A lovely time to share and remember the day with neighbours at a safe distance during Covid 19.
by Linda Treherne

Lockdown 18th Anniversary
by Karen Gardner

Lockdown Heatwave I
by Karen Gardner

Lockdown Heatwave II
by Karen Gardner

Why Aren't They All At Work?
by Nigel Suckling

First Harvest of Lockdown Potatoes
by Alex Britcher-Allan

An invitation!
by Elizabeth Ellicott

Handle Me With Care (Travelling Wilburys)
by Mark, Jonno & Tony from the Toad Rock Retreat Tuesday Night jam Group
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Times Like These (Foo Fighters)
by John, Tony, Jonno & Mark from the Toad Rock Retreat Tuesday Night Jam Group
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Virtual Choir Practice
by Alex Britcher-Allan

HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS THAT SHOW
OUR LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE!

The crazy potatoes! Like millions of others we sowed our sprouting
potatoes in any old bags we could find .. 3 months later they are
taking over the world! But will there be spuds?

Tomato mania because we knew no one would get to the shops again, so
every available pot was found to pot up the Venture's finest plants
(utter bliss when the Venture opened with plants).

And under-estimating the size of tobacco plants. I grew them from tiny
plug plants, tended them over lockdown and now they have
taken over the garden.

Finally gin o clock .... enough said .... sun over the yard arm in the hottest
Spring for years, Mediterranean holiday cancelled so staycation with a
gorgeous cold gin after a day in the garden .... heaven!
Caroline Stevens