Stay at home, they said. Save lives, they said. It’ll only be for a while, they said. Look on the bright side, they said. Think of all that time to do the things you’ve been putting off for years. Shakespeare, they said, wrote some good material while social distancing from bubonic plague, and as for […]
Beating Stress in a Lockdown
We’re coming into the second, or third or, for some of us, even fourth week of lockdown due to coronavirus. It’s been a difficult time for many families and, even though acknowledging it can be difficult, it is sometimes half the battle, while other times we need to do something practical. This might be as […]
Coronavirus: We’re all in the same boat
Once I was a sailor. Or, at least, I spent a couple of years messing about on boats. It left me with fond memories and a vague hankering to put the oilskins back on and untie the lines, but mostly I don’t think of it. Until now, that is… It started way back the last […]
Coronavirus: How does this make you feel?
Living in a time of contraditions Saturday morning and obviously, there’s no football, no yoga, no lovely long bike rides to cafes, no cinema, no supermarket shop, nothing doing out there except a brisk walk. Nope. And we know this. It sucks. We know this too. While I gaze out onto quiet, still and silent […]
The Best Ways to Celebrate Freedom
If you’ve ever been cooped up in your house for a long time, whether due to illness, bad weather or circumstances outside your control, you’ll know that before long your thoughts start to turn to all the plans you want to make for after you’re able to leave again. Your first trips outside again should […]
Coronavirus: It really is still only Wednesday…
Here’s what I learned today: Be careful what you wish for. Often in the olden days I wished that I could slow down time, that days would stop their break-neck hurtle. Yeah. That. Conversational quality is a spectrum. “Mum, that’s the fourth time you’ve said that and you saying how thin the chat is going […]
Top 4+1 kid friendly tours in Athens
Where we are currently in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, it might seem that foreign holidays are only a memory. However, one day, the possibility of travel will exist again. So, until then, it’s possible to day dream… and research. Tours are a great way to keep the kids in line while getting to […]
Coronavirus: Garnished with a fishfinger
Yesterday, as soon as we got wind of the new measures (or lockdown as they call it in Scotland) Boy Two came to the rescue and fetched his big brother (and all his stuff) back from uni. So now the Palace of Bundance is full to bursting. Here’s what I learned: If you’re going to […]