It feels like a lifetime ago that I gave a talk about staff wellbeing in paediatrics. It was February 2020 and the talk was titled: “The best of times, the worst of times: finding our words in paediatrics.” The notion (nod to 'A Tale of Two Cities') that when things feel at their worst, they can also be at their best. How strange it feels now to be writing months on from the first months of the pandemic as our fears about winter just begin to materialise. I am a doctor but al