Time continues to behave strangely, particularly the long days but infinitesimally short weeks. 5YO is back with online school, and is in year 2, so won’t be going back to the premises any time soon. I suspect not until September. 3YO starts at the local nursery 3 days a week from Monday, which will be an enormous relief for all of us. She’s progressed really well with forming letters, speech, cutting skills etc – but she needs to play, naturally enough, and two working parents plus a big sister who’s not always physically or emotionally available leads to no small amount of frustration all round.
With the burst of excellent weather, we had further reason to feel extremely fortunate getting the balcony extension done, as I’d bought a paddling pool for just such an eventuality.
Hard to imagine, one week later, staring at the rain, hail and lightning outside.
There’s a lot of things one misses under Lockdown, of course, but the general point is: novelty. There’s no new random encounters, no gossip at work about some trivial thing, or comment about some guy you saw on the tube. Everything is monotonous and predictable – don’t get me wrong, it could be much worse, but injecting novelty is one of the key things I’m going to work on assuming we’re going to be largely like this for another couple of months.
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