Day 91 plus first day back at school

Sunday, 21st and Monday 22nd May 2020
Weather: Sunday was still partly cloudy but today (Monday) was a perfectly sunny day.

I can't believe I missed doing the last (school) lockdown blog on time! Instead I'll do a combined yesterday and today blog to end the daily lockdown blogs. (Andre and I are still currently working form home.)

Yesterday was Father's Day. Isabella was excited to bring Andre his cards and presents in bed. Isabella and I made breakfast while Andre stayed in bed.

We then went to clean the office again, but we're getting better at this and have reduced our time there quite well now. Back home we were just being a bit lazy around the house. Isabella and I played while we left Andre to do whatever he felt like doing on his own.

Tabby joined us to play with the LOL dolls.

For lunch we had ordered cream tea to be delivered. It was amazing and way too much! We were still eating leftover cream tea today! It included lovely sandwiches, scones of course, mini cupcakes, lemon drizzle cake, carrot cake and chocolate brownies.

Beautifully wrapped!

Andre had an afternoon nap and then we ended the day with a bit of fishing next to the canal. We caught one little fish.

Today was (finally!) Isabella's first day back at school. It felt strange walking to school this morning after not doing it for three months. Isabella was a little nervous, but also excited. We have a time slot for dropping her off and picking her up so each group is kept completely separate. She has two different teachers to her usual class teachers, but she said they were both great. From what Isabella said it sounds like she has 12 children in her class. They can currently have a maximum of 15 compared to the 30 they usually have in class. Still with two teachers. They're lucky to have small classes now! She said she has her own desk, desks are spaced 2 meters apart, and on her desk she has a tray with all her things in, her own pen pot and a pot of playdough too. Sounds like they spent most of the day outside in their designated outdoor space for their class bubble. Lunch is brought to their classroom and they eat at their desks. Sounds like Isabella had a really great day back at school today.

I enjoyed being able to work most of the day without interruptions or having to do multiple things at the same time.


I'll try to keep posting our weekend news regularly, but there won't be much interesting news to write about during the week now unfortunately. Thank you for reading! I now want to turn these posts into a book so we can save our lockdown memories to look back at. That's the next project, but first I need to finish painting those patio slabs outside this week. It's meant to be really hot this week so a good time for doing that. Ok, until next time!

"I will lie here with my paws folded because I am the king and you will serve me, human." 

"And I will pretend to dangle my feet and tail in the water to entertain you humans from time to time."