Smiling under my mask

I am - I promise! I’m smiling under here!

This mask wearing makes my work a bit more difficult, I hadn’t realised how many of my cues to the person looking down the lens are physical - and specifically - facial.

My big smile shows my gratitude, my approval - my happiness. This has disappeared in an instant and it’s taking time to figure out a proper way around it if I’m honest.

So far I’ve been making up for my lacking of a visible smile with chatter. Now I’ve always talked to help folks feel at ease with a massive camera being pointed in their direction, but this has to be another level.

Apparently I could chew the ear off a donkey (so I’ve been told - by my family!) and now I’m chatting as if my life depends on it, well I suppose it sort of does.

Maybe it’s high time I break out the biro pen and just draw a big smile on the blumin’ masks! lol!