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…
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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…
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…
Book reading in lockdown
As always seems to happen in times of trouble, people are reading more in lockdown. In Canberra people are reading longer books, classics and series. Local bookstores have been taking phone and online orders and mailing the books. It seems the longer length and classic books are being read because with the extra time on…
Covid is affecting our cuppa
When something starts to affect our cups of tea, you know it has to be serious! Thanks to covid, some Aussie tea bags are being sold sans tags. When you buy Madura tea there’s a little card in the box that says: Dear Customer, With the current global upheaval we have been short supplied tags…