So, it’s not really during weekdays, because, if I’ve gone to work, then I’ve, I’ve seen people at work. I’ve been quite sociable at work. It’s It’s weekends, when everyone’s off doing things with like their family, or with their partner, or with their friends. And then I feel like I’m expected to have great plans for the weekend, when really, it’s just like me on my own, pottering around. And I think it’s then, when people are telling me about their weekend plans, or they’ve told me what they’ve got up to. And then they ask me, and I’m just like, erm…

Okay. How does that make you feel?

Like, really, I feel really like embarrassed. I sometimes like make things up that I’ve done, so that I don’t look like a complete loner.

Is there any time when you feel lonely during the week?

Not really. No, not really. Because I’m so busy doing something, I don’t really notice it.

But you still miss your friends?

Well, sometimes on the weekend, I start to feel it a little bit cos that’s the time I normally see them. Whereas during the week, I’m working or busy doing housework and cooking and stuff. But then during the weekend, I notice it more because I’m doing less stuff because, on the weekend, it’s just a relaxing day.

As I say when I come home, and I sort of walk through the door and I just sort of walk through the door, put the TV on and I feel like I’ve got, I just feel like I’ve got nothing to do, there’s noth-, there’s nothing really to do in my place when I’m, to keep me busy and, you know, and it’s, it’s, you know, there’s, I know no-one’s gonna call so it’s kind of like, your TV becomes your sort of company that I sort of see that as my like…like somebody who I can, you know, watch and keep, that keeps me busy I suppose but I think there’s times like Sunday night, Sunday nights when, you know, it’s you feel, the weekend and you just, it would be nice to have some, some, somebody’s company. You know, there’s times when you actually just want someone’s actual company and, you know, maybe just a hug or something like that or just, you know, them, them times, there’s certain times.

I think it’s, I think it’s just you’re at home and you’re, you’re indoors if the weather’s not good. Christmas times, birthdays just occa-, you know like Valentine’s day, anything Mother’s day, Father’s day. I think them, them sort of times when you know you should like, I’ve spent Christmas on my own and I suppose them times you know when it’s all about family and, and people coming together. New Year’s Eve is, is another time is when it’s particularly worse feeling lonely. You’re sort of going into the New Year.

I: Why do you think it, it’s worse during those periods?

Because, I suppose social media you, you know, you see people and they’re having parties and then their group photos and then you’re there, you know, you’re at home alo-, sort alone and, you know, so I suppose it’s not really what people do when they’re, when it comes down to [um] special occasions.