On Monday 6 April 2020 - exactly two weeks after Boris Johnson stood behind a podium and told England it was going into a historically-unprecedented national lockdown - most of us were licking our wounds with banana bread and Zoom quizzes.
But at a family home in Bedfordshire, 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore had decided, with the help of a walking frame, to start pacing 25-metre lengths of his back garden, ten times per day, in a bid to raise money for NHS Charities Together.
His goal: a modest £1,000. Just 24 days later, on the eve of his 100th birthday, Captain Tom had raised well over £32 million (estimated to be closer to £40m with Gift Aid rebates) crowdsourced from approximately 1.