One A Week: Isolation Life

First of all, we're all fine. I mean, I have a cold (somehow!) but we've been inside but for necessities for a month now. Jane's school closed three weeks ago, Andy stopped going to work four weeks ago, Alice had chickenpox so it was a good time to quarantine her anyway. Since we've been using grocery delivery for over a year, we're able to just continue with it--they aren't accepting any new customers. We've only gone to the physical grocery store once since the lockdown began, trying to avoid it if we can. I did have to pick up a prescription a few weeks ago, too, so I did all that in one trip. The lines weren't too long to get in.

Anyway, I just figured I'd put up a bunch of pictures.

Climate strike in Bristol when Greta Thunberg was here. Seems like ages ago! We couldn't see her, but we could hear her a bit.

Jane being Spider Gwen, with Alice helping.

Climbing on Andy

Andy's getting tons of work done at home, as you can see.

This is a game called Rhino Hero. Andy wisely ordered five new games for us before we were locked down. This one involves placing folded cards on top of roofs and putting the rhino character on different levels.

Hanging up laundry

Alice playing with Dad

Smiles with Mom

PE with Joe--Fancy Dress Friday! Joe Wicks, a PE teacher/fitness instructor, is doing live PE classes on YouTube at 9 AM (our time) Monday-Friday until classes resume. Jane hasn't missed a day! He encourages people to dress up on Fridays. I've done the workouts with her most days. They're not easy!

Alice loves barbecue sauce.

And beans.

There is a seagull who visits our windowsill most days. Alice and I will go over to the window and say hi, stepping closer slowly until it flies off. We don't feed it, I don't know why it visits. But it's become a thing. We call it Gadget.

I'll get you next time, Gadget!

Some sunny day pictures from what feels like a long time ago. Not that it hasn't been sunny. Just that we haven't been out to enjoy it lately!

Alice kept picking up clementines out of the box and chewing on them, so this time I let her--peel and all!

More strike photos

Made a cake and tried using piping bags for the first time.

OK, can we get a picture of the three of us?

Where no one's slobbery hands are on anyone else's faces?

No?

All right.

Jane got to be the bell-ringer at school one morning, which tells everyone it's time to line up with your classes. So that must have been in February, probably!