The highlight of my lockdown? It involved tea and a plastic apron ...

When I volunteered at my father’s care home, I didn’t expect it to be such hard work – or to be confronted with so many empty beds. But it was also unexpectedly upliftingFor the past three months, I have been moonlighting as a tea-lady. A few weeks into lockdown, and at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, my father’s care home had become desperately understaffed. Carers were going down with the virus while cleaners were doubling up as kitchen staff, or vice versa. On the d