Derbyshire's amazing NHS workers are always there for us

And with our homes now transformed into shared living, learning and working spaces, it’s bringing out the multi-tasker in all of us.

It’s bad enough compiling reports and holding video conference calls whilst praying the home wi-fi holds out, without having to break off every now and then to help the kids conjugate the odd irregular German verb.

Hopefully everyone is learning to get along without getting on each other’s nerves or letting things get up our noses.

For one local family, however, that problem became all too literal at the weekend.

Julie Birch’s three-year-old son Stan put a piece of Lego up his nose on Sunday morning – and although she didn’t want to take him to hospital for obvious reasons, she had no choice.

But the mum from Bolsover praised ‘amazing’ staff at Chesterfield Royal Hospital for coming to the aid of her little boy when he got into his predicament.

It reminded me that youngsters can be incredibly curious about how the world around them fits together.

When I was a kid, I actually cut open the back out of our family’s brand new sofa to provide a new playground for my pet guinea pig inside – but that’s for another day.

The brilliant way that Stan was looked after and cared for – despite the fact we're in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic, putting immense pressure on our hospitals – shows what an incredible job our doctors and nurses do every single day.

Risking their lives right now during the coronavirus outbreak is genuinely heroic – so much so that a weekly round of applause every Thursday evening seems the very least we can do to say thank you.

But those same dedicated health professionals will be there for us day after day, long after the current lockdown ends.

One of the few positives that might come out of the current situation is that we appreciate a little more just how lucky we are to have them – and never take them for granted.