Apparently for many people in lockdown, they’ve missed having a reason to get dressed up. Taking out the weekly rubbish became reason enough to dress to the nines. Yes, not only did Australia start the toilet paper wars, but we also started the dress up for bin isolation day trend. All that effort to put…
Covid Life
Covid life idea goes viral
We all know what life is like in lockdown. For many people it meant time on their hands they weren’t used to – and that lends itself to a lot of craziness. But sometimes in that craziness you find a gem. ML Brennan is one of those people who found a gem. ML tweeted: I…
Bookshelf restack fail
We’ve all taken the chance during lockdown to get to some of those big jobs done that we never really get to. This was no different for a well-meaning cleaner who took the chance to do a deep clean of the closed library where she worked. Librarians at the library in Suffolk (UK) returned to…
Giving Moore, Part 2
You may remember on the 6 May I posted about (then) Captain Tom Moore who decided to raise £1000 for NHS Charities to help fight coronavirus by completing 100 laps of his garden on his walker before the end of April when he turned 100 (10 laps of the 25m garden a day). You can…
School’s back…kinda
Today my eldest Barbarian (Heckle) starts back at school after 6 weeks of closed schools. Thanks to a gradual start to face-to-face schooling, Jeckle won’t start back until 2 June (after 8 weeks away). Both Barbarians are excited to be going back to school. Online learning just isn’t the same. Hopefully everything will go well…