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Coronavirus: School’s out for the foreseeable future…

March 21, 2020 By Ellen

Dear school (teachers and staff), I’m sorry I didn’t pay attention to our last days together. I had no idea that my 16 years as a mum at our local primary would end like this, none of us did. One minute you were part of life’s fingerprint, the next it was over.  Secondary too, but […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: boys, children, coronavirus, Covid 19, family, in my life, in the world, letter, School, Something happened in my life

Self-isolation: Day three, things I learned

March 19, 2020 By Ellen

If it was Monday, it would be Blue Monday. It may well be… I’ve started to lose track of which day is which and feeling rising anxiety about how I’ll be able to tell if it’s the weekend or not. I’m not a cryer – the opposite in fact – but today there were tears. […]

Filed Under: review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, coronavirus, Covid 19, exams, family, in my life, in the world, isolation, My Life, Something happened in my life, stars, TicTok, walk, worry

Self-isolation: Day two, things I’ve learned

March 18, 2020 By Ellen

I think it was the piano that did it. Googling the piano like the yamaha dgx 640 digital piano, and wondering whether Amazon (or whoever) would be able to deliver it. In a dull moment (of which there have been surprisingly few) I found myself wondering about all the marvelous things we could learn during […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: children, coronavirus, Covid 19, family, help, in my life, in the world, isolation, plans, quarantine, Something happened in my life, WFH, wifi, working from home

Self isolation: Day one, things I’ve learned

March 17, 2020 By Ellen

It’s funny how the significant moments happen without fanfare, rather than to the big hulloo you think they deserve. Working from home this lunchtime when Boy Two came in from school looking clammy and pale. He flopped onto the spare bed and said: “Urgh.” He was shivery and warm, achy, coughing and tired.  Oh, shit. […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: boys, children, coronavirus, Covid 19, family, in my life, in the world, My Life, parenting, School, Scotland, self-isolation, virus, WFH

Vacuum-packed chicken feet, a big screen and a stage

February 24, 2020 By Ellen

It was a shock, I’ll admit. I know we’ve seen people in surgical masks all over the news and all over the world, but that’s still there and not here. Very much not here. Nothing that interesting ever happens in our corner of the world. I used to hate that. The fact that the semi-rural northish […]

Filed Under: review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, colour, coronavirus, Covid 19, David Copperfield, Dickens, in my life, in the world, infection, mask, Nixon in China, Opera, Stirling

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