No doubt you are sitting at home, maybe trawling through whatever you can find on the internet to keep you entertained or informed. If you are not sitting at home then you should be (unless you are at work, in which case I'll let you off). These are truly strange times. It is March 2020, and we are on government imposed lockdown because of Coronavirus. This invisible enemy is raging through our planet at the moment, and leaving death and distress in its wake. It has claimed thousands of lives in Italy, Spain, China, America, and now the UK, which is where we are. It is early days here - it hasn't peaked here yet, although cases are rising very sharply. We are so lucky in that we live in a small village in the North of England - cases are comparatively low, we have fresh air and space. I can't imagine how hard this must be for people living in big cities, or tower blocks.
So you probably know all that, but what has this done to us? Well firstly all four of us are working from home most of the time. I'm a university lecturer and I'm working at home full time. My husband's a scientist and he's at home 4 days a week, and our two children are also at home, doing schoolwork in the morning, and whatever they can do to stay amused in the afternoon. Thats lots of fortnite, minecraft and general gaming, PE with Joe Wicks, and PQA - their performing arts academy has set up a virtual academy - its brilliant actually!- they've had puppetry, beatboxing and animation online classes so far. We've got a new allotment that we are just starting on but that might not last as there is talk of the government banning people from working their allotments :-(
The cats seem to be enjoying the self-isolation, having humans at their service 24/7. We have 3 - Elsa who is 5, Kira who is nearly 2 and Indy who is 6 months. Obviously there will be cat pictures featuring on this blog. We also have an ancient guinea pig - Edith (named after one of the kids in Despicable Me - we also used to have a Margot and an Agnes).
So, thats us, and with all 4 of us working from home... thats The Workhouse.
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