Grand day! that will all forever
Molly, seeing her first different faces in months. It was just perfect.”
Anne said: “Holding Molly for the first time in so long was wonderful.
“I last saw her when she was just a few weeks old and I’d missed her so much since then. She has the cutest little smile and deliciously chubby legs. She’s gorgeous. Our time together has been so precious. I’m not sure I’ll ever want to let them go back.”
Meanwhile, Gareth Snow, 37, filmed the moving moment that his daughter Heidi was able to embrace her Nana Pam. Gareth, from Worthing, West Sussex, described the pair as “best friends” and was thrilled that they were able to get together again.
He said: “Today we have been able to reunite Nana Pam with her granddaughter and best friend Heidi.
“It has been a long three months of Facetime and doorstep hellos at a distance, which has been hard on both of them as they are usually so close.
“For those living alone this will make life so much easier – a little bit of ‘normal’.
“They can now go for a walk along the seafront, picnic in the park together... Simple things that have sadly not been possible during lockdown.”
Families had been kept apart since March 23, with those aged over 70 told to stay indoors and the “clinically vulnerable” ordered to shield.
However, the Government has decided that people living alone in England can now form “bubbles” with another household.
Northern Ireland is adopting a similar relaxation of the lockdown for those people living alone.
Adults living alone or single parents living with children under 18 can form a bubble with one other household, which means they will effectively be treated as a single household for the purpose of the lockdown rules.
They can visit each other in their homes – staying overnight if they wish – and will not have to observe the two-metre social distancing rule.
The guidelines say these bubbles are strictly exclusive, so neither household can form a bubble with others.