I woke at 5am this is getting ridiculous I know they say you need less sleep when you get old but I’m only 45 and on this trajectile I will only need 15 mins by the time I’m 80. Anyway it looks like another beautiful day ahead except this is Giz’s one day off because he’s a key worker and frankly we need the money, the rules on lorry drivers hours have been scrapped, he’s worked 57 hours this week and is still bouncing around like tigger he’s only been up 10 mins and already smashed my Denby gravy boat, I won’t be having a funeral for it or anything in fact I’m sadly excited about the extra space created in the cupboard by losing an item I’ve only used twice.
Well I did it!! Mr Joe Wicks when this is over I’m filing a lawsuit! I look like Violet Bearegarde, big round and purple and when I walk I sound like a bowl of rice crispies but I did it unlike my whining 6 year old, I’m shocked at his lack of energy and coordination for someone who can’t sit still ever he was knackered well before me so he WILL be doing this everyday and if nothing else good come of being my on lockdown maybe we will be a little bit fitter (again subject to avoiding COVID-19
11:30 Fabian couldn’t be less enthused about homeschooling and this is being fuelled by Gary laughing at my attempts to teach him about a languages eventually I cracked and let him out for playtime I would join him outside but I am unable to walk for the foreseeable future thanks to wicksies work out, its that bad I’ve started on the sacred paracetamol stash which is strictly for emergencies only if this hardship continues I can see us using paracetamol as currency like a pack of 16 tablets traded for a Ford Focus.
I was going avoid politics in this blog but In other news Bojo’s got the lurgy which is a bit of a shock as he seems immune to almost everything probably due to his Teflon coating nothing sticks to him long enough to have any detrimental effect. The only thing more terrifying to me than my family getting Coronavirus is Bodgers evil sidekick running the country…there will be dark day Cummings!! So Dominic Raab has taken the helm he’s well know for his “no holds barred” approach to Brexit so let’s hope he’s got the same gusto with this virus. It now a appears the Health Sectary Matt Hancock and the chief medical officer Chris Whitty have tested positive, I hope all infected are ok but got to say it’s not setting a good example maybe the whole cabinet were a verse short of a Happy Birthday?
Food offerings today, Giz rustled up bacon sarnies for breakfast, Pulled pork sandwiches for lunch and cauliflower cheese with homemade garlic bread for dinner. Vegetable and red lentil curry in the slow cooker for tomorrow which will cause a groan of disappointment as vegetarian nights always do but then they eat it and love it, it’s a ritual we go through every week, Saturday is usually takeaway night but I’m trying very hard to not order out, but get through our dry store cupboards (there’s some cracking vintage on some of my tins) and leave the stuff on the supermarket shelves for those that don’t have the luxury of a well stocked larder.
Sad stories are flooding in for work, so many brides rescheduling their weddings, I know how much they pour their souls into wedding planning so my heart goes out to them having to reschedule everything and with fitting them all in for next year it means I will lose at least 6months work but I keep in mind there are those much worse off than me so try not to moan. Funerals are the only work I’m taking on and with caution as flowers are hard to get but one poor lady called from the West Country begging me to take her order as no one will be able to attend her mother’s funeral and she couldn’t stand the thought of her going without at least a bunch of flowers (we both shed a tear over that)
On a lighter note Gary and Millie play fighting has resulted in us needing a new bathroom door…. still adhering to our distancing rules he poked her with the mop handle and she fell over sticking her elbow through the door as she went…that’s a job for Dad when we can get a new one and while he’s at it he can replace her bedroom door she stuck her foot through a few months ago (I can see a pattern forming here)
I introduced Millie to the vacuum cleaner today I wouldn’t say they hit it off in her words they aren’t “besties” or “bff” she managed a small area but then (and I can’t work out how) she missed the whole bathroom floor in spite being in there 10 mins with the hoover making the appropriate noises???
Apart from P.E home schooling consisted of two David Attenborough documentaries with a small test at the end, a build your own volcano (oh Christ the mess) and after I held a gun to his head he wrote his diary page a maths sheet and a spelling test…… I pray he is more cooperative next week or I might just loose my shizzle over this.
In order to get some personal space I stuck a documentary on about the Black Death 💀 it had the desired effect my family all scrambled from the front room leaving me to some much needed peace and quiet. It was a little sobering to think that in a thousand years people will be digging up mass graves to study our bones and research the great Coronavirus plague of 2020
Heading to bed after another couple of pain killers….I’m still walking like John Wayne!
Life but not as we know it 