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…
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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…
Giving Moore
I imagine everyone has heard of Captain Tom Moore by now. The then 99-year-old army veteran wanted 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). His…
Silly walks in lockdown
A family in Michigan have put up a sign outside their house encouraging people to “silly walk” their way past their house. If the concept of “silly walk” isn’t familiar, it comes from a Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit: The Ministry of Silly Walks (an excerpt below…) Apparently everyone has got into the spirit of…
Make your day a GEM
For a long time now we’ve made it a habit at our family dinners to go around the table and talk about our favourite thing for the day. It means we all finish the day thinking about what went well, rather than the not so much. That hasn’t changed with our covid stay-at-home life. Although…