Since lockdown (and putting societal emergency healthcare to one side for a moment) there have been countless column inches and observations in relation to the effects that these weeks may have on peoples’ mental health, both short and long-term. There have been amusing chatter and memes about how lockdown will crush the (majority) extrovert segments […]
An Obituary. Sort of.
Enforced Home-Ed today. Child no.2 had to write an ‘Obituary for King David’ in Religious Education as requested by school.It turned out that meladdo didn’t know what an obituary was. So, I spent ages explaining what it was (versus a ‘eulogy’). I shared with him some very moving obituaries of incredible, human rights activist and […]
Home-Schooling Goes Forth
Words from the Home-Schooling outhouse ; whilst studying WW1 History & the battles : “Arghh! This day is just like that Blackadder Goes Forth episode where Blackadder talks about the horrors of the war; ‘the mud, the noise of the guns and the endless poetry’…But here it’s ‘the freezing-cold, the noise of my mother yelling […]
Mothering Sunday. 2020 ‘Locked Down’
I did anticipate that Mothering Sunday would be as ordinary as it is every year here – i.e. we’ve never really bothered with it. In fact, my 12 year old sudden realised what day it was and went; “Well aren’t you going to open your presents, Mum?” I said “Oooh – have I got presents?” […]
Please Ring. Whether Randomly, or not.
NEVER IN THE FIELD OF… Like many, I’ve been trying to mentally conjure up some similar situations for myself and for my kids, when it comes to trying to show that we’ve got through ‘this sort of thing’ before. So far – and from my own family – I’ve come up with examples from; the […]