This coronavirus pandemic has encircled the world due to travel and connectivity and introduced us to words we have not needed to use. Unbroken links have chained us in lockdowns and shielding with hope for our futures being created by scientists and care from health professionals and other key workers. This piece recognises all of these along with a black edge to remember all those; from all cultures, continents and creeds whose lives have been taken by the pandemic. My personal hope is that we come through this as better, kinder, more caring people not wanting normal, but better. Lesley Fudge has a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Philosophy and a Master’s in Biomedical Ethics, and as a retired nurse working in operating theatres where precision and accuracy are vital, her practice as a textile artist leans that way rather than to the abstract. Perpetual learning works with her belief that the more we learn the more we realise, the less we know.