Heather's contribution to the Collecting Covid: Wales 2020 questionnaire project.

My poor 5-year-old daughter misses her school and her friends. Both my husband and I work full time in the house and constantly shush her and tell her "not now we're busy". When we finally aren't busy, we’re exhausted. I think the constant distractions in the house cause more energy and focus to be needed for the same work I was doing without distractions in the office before the lockdown. I commuted to work by bicycle before – something that blasts you with cold air and physical exertion, and clears your head and invigorates you. Without that, I end up like a zombie at the end of the day, and can't find energy enough to engage with my kid fully. I've tried to go for bike rides anyway, but without a purpose to them, I can't find the motivation to go. My kid watches a disgusting amount of television now.

I thought I would end up snacking more throughout the day and eating larger meals now that they all have to be cooked at home, but that hasn't really happened. My constant battle to muster enough unbroken concentration in the work day doesn't really leave room for aimless snacking. But without the bike riding and walking and dancing I used to do regularly, I'm still getting fatter. I've had to cut myself down from my normal food intake just so my trousers will stop being unbearably tight, but I've just ended up filling that hole with alcohol. So, the battle continues.

Social distancing is our one main defence. When we bring groceries or other purchases into the house, my husband washes them with soap and water. I always feel like that's over-the-top, so I just lay it all out and spray it with Dettol. Unless I'm feeling particularly like the world has gone mad and nothing makes sense and how on Earth could a person possibly contract a deadly virus from a packet of biscuits. In which case, I just put the stuff away in the cupboards and wash my hands and pour a drink and call it job-done.

I think my personality is particularly vulnerable to caged-bird-syndrome. I like to flit between places and people on whims. They said at the beginning of this that the Age of Introverts is upon us, but that was silly. How can I possibly find time alone to recharge my introverted energy bank when I'm trapped all day in a tiny house with two other trapped people? I go to bed exhausted and low and wake up the same as if I never actually went to bed. I feel like a zombie, and I feel infinite guilt.

Actually, this questionnaire has been surprisingly therapeutic. Thank you. I don't think I've ever been asked these things or ever had to stop and think what my answers to any of these questions are. I feel strangely lighter – like I just spent a half hour in the confessional and can just leave it all there when I walk out.

The Rev. D. A. Roberts's contribution to the Collecting Covid: Wales 2020 questionnaire project.

I am the local Rector of Bedwas, Machen, and Michaelston-y-Fedw and I'm the Vicar of Rudry. Our churches are helping people with food parcels, prescription collections, click & collect deliveries, and pastoral care at this time. I am a key worker, and amongst my normal duties as a Vicar, I am doing this along with over 100 volunteers from the community who have signed up to help us.

I get up at 7am typically, ready for a my work at the Bedwas, Machen, Michaelston-y-Fedw & Rudry Parish Trust CARE Project, which has HQ at St. Thomas' Church, Caerphilly. At the HQ, we have a food hub which is where food is collected and delivered in food parcels to people in need. It's also the base of our online support system and phone lines. I am on hand as the Lead of the Project, and also in my role as Vicar. I will usually leave there at 5pm, ready to come home to my wife and the children, before working again the next day. In between all those things are usual vicar jobs including services which are now all online, and funerals, some of which are COVID-19 related.

Some of the calls I take as a vicar are particularly tough at the moment: people grieving, people who are struggling with mental health, people who are in desperate poverty, and even people who cannot cook anything with the food we give in food parcels because the poverty is so diverse and vast. That can be hard to comprehend at times.

The Church is used to responding and adapting to crises and pandemics, so this is nothing new for the Church... it's just strange to be the generation having to do it! But despite challenges, we are grasping the opportunities too. People of all ages are connecting with the Church now, and our older members are getting much better at technology!

I think that out of all the challenge and sadness that people are experiencing now, there can also come hope, and even joy. There are good news stories to see and hear, such as people recovering, people coming together and building community. My hope and prayer is that this will last long after lockdown. I'm also hopeful about the Church. People are asking "the big questions" and many are joining online events and services, or volunteering with us. It's really heart-warming, and it gives me immense hope for the future. I just hope we don't squander or waste the good things that have been given to us during this difficult time.

Cyfraniad Sali i broject Casglu Covid: Cymru 2020.

Rwy'n byw mewn ty teras yn Waunfawr, Gwynedd, efo fy merch 16 oed a fy mab 11 oed. Mae'r sefyllfa wedi creu cyfle i gloshau efo mhlant. Er eu bod dal yn mynd at eu tad yn y cload mawr, mae'r cyfnodau yn y dau le yn hirach, yn dawelach ac yn llai prysur. Rwy'n gweithio o adref ac felly yn eu amgylchedd drwy'r amser pan mae nhw yma. Rydym hefyd yn cerdded mwy yn nghwmni ein gilydd. 

Rwy'n ddarlithydd nyrsio ac mae wedi bod yn andros o brysur. Rydym wedi gorfod cynnal wythnos groeso arlein ym mis Ebrill, trosi ein holl ddysgu ar-lein, dysgu llawer o sgiliau technegol newydd, hefyd ymdopi efo'r newidiadau ar gyfer ein myfyrwyr – blwyddyn 1 ddim yn cael mynd ar leoliadau clinigol felly mwy o addysg academaidd; blwyddyn 2 a 3 yn mynd allan i weithio ond angen i ni ailwampio amserlenni, gwirio y lleoliadau a sicrhau ansawdd a dilyniant eu addysg. Hyn ar gyfer cannoedd o fyfyrwyr.

Mae'r mab 11 wedi bod wrth ei fodd yn hunan reoli ei dasgiau dysgu tra ei fod adre efo fi. Mae fy merch wedi ei siomi'n ofnadwy nad yw yn medru eistedd ei arholiadau TGAU. Hefyd nad yw yn cael cyfle i orffen yr ysgol yn nghwmni ei ffrindiau (bydd yn mynd i'r coleg fis Medi) a ffarwelio'n iawn efo'r athrawon. Pan gawson nhw eu diwrnod olaf yn yr ysgol - dyddiau cyn y cloi lawr - roedd yna dristwch mawr. Disgyblion Bl 11 a'u athrawon yn emosiynol ac yn ddagreuol. Er bod fy merch yn ddefnyddiwr brwd o'r cyfryngau cymdeithasol, nid yw'n llewnwi'r bwlch ac mae'n teimlo colled ei ffrindiau a'i chyfoedion yn fawr iawn. Mae hi hefyd yn drist iawn am golli allan ar yr haf euraidd hir ar ol TGAU lle byddai wedi bod yn gwneud lot o bethau hwyliog efo'i chyfeillion - gan gynnwys mynd i Maes B yn yr eisteddfod am y tro cyntaf.

Rwy'n teimlo tosturi mawr dros y rhai ifanc yma am golli y cyfle i groesi'r trothwyl yn iawn o gyfnod eu plentyndod i fod yn oedolion ifanc. Mae wedi fy syfrdanu meddwl pa mor bwerus yw y neges rydym yn ei gyfleu i blant o'u diwrnod cyntaf yn blwyddyn derbyn mae anelu at y TGAU yw eu nod a'u ffocws. Nawr wrth dynnu'r ffocws yna oddi tanynt, mae'r bobl ifanc yma druan ar goll.

Mae nifer o fy ffrindiau lleol a minnau wedi teimlo'n euog am gael cystal amser yn y pandemig – heb golli anwyliaid eto, heb golli swyddi (achos ein bod mewn ardal dlawd ac felly llawer ohonom yn weithwyr cyhoeddus). Mi fydd felly yn ddyletswydd ar y rhai ohonom sydd wedi cadw neu atgyfnerthu ein iechyd meddwl i chwarae rhan gweithgar yn cefnogi y rhai llai ffodus pan awn yn ol at rywbeth tebycach i'r hen arferion. Bydded hynny trwy helpu 1-1 neu trwy weithredu'n wleidyddol neu rhywbeth arall.