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Mar. 24th, 2020 10:43 pmThese Finnish cats are even floofier than my Princess Fluffykins! Observe the great columns of magnificence in picture 2! Actually, they look quite a lot like Fluffy, but are probably at least three times her size.
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We walked into town yesterday morning to get a few essentials (our multivitamins, my supplies from Grape Tree, chocolate, etc). No difficulty in maintaining physical distance as the place was deserted, and the shops we did visit had very sensible precautions in place (although the chap in the Grape Tree was the only one who gave us hand sanitiser after the transaction). Mind you, there were some oddities: most of the shops were closed, but the leather shop (clothes!) was open, which seemed excessively optimistic to me.
And now, we are much more firmly locked down, so it's just as well we went.
It was actually a lovely morning. Chilly, but the sky was bright blue and the palest pink magnolias were at peak glory (or, in one case, just-past-the-peak). Dark pink magnolias are still only in bud. So much blossom everywhere, so many daffodils. The world is a beautiful place. Also there was a quail in the back garden.
Yesterday evening, I had a long phone conversation with my brother! Bit of a surprise as I have not heard from him in over a year, but it was lovely to talk to him.
My children are both working from home, which is good to know, and their housemates work from home anyway. I just hope they won't all drive each other mad.
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I am trying to figure out how to do a virtual Easter Egg Hunt. My family has had an Easter Egg Hunt every year since they were very tiny, and we always enjoy it, but I don't think we'll be able to do that this year.
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Exercise time was a programme based on the last Double Trouble class I had, which wore me out. Inevitably, FIL wandered in as we were part-way through, but it wasn't too bad a moment since we'd just done some warm-up dance-ish moves and hadn't started on the pyramid yet. Beast went to sort him out, after I had told him very firmly that he could not leave his loaded slow cooker (chicken thighs!) on the worktop for the next twenty four hours but must put it in the fridge. I don't understand why he has started filling the slow cooker a day before he wants to actually cook stuff in it, but I should prefer not to have our lives complicated by a FIL with food poisoning.
The exercise routine worked well! I'm including it under a cut, in case anyone is interested.
( Read more... )
And today, our yoga mats have come!
My posts are going to be *so* boring over the next few weeks.
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We walked into town yesterday morning to get a few essentials (our multivitamins, my supplies from Grape Tree, chocolate, etc). No difficulty in maintaining physical distance as the place was deserted, and the shops we did visit had very sensible precautions in place (although the chap in the Grape Tree was the only one who gave us hand sanitiser after the transaction). Mind you, there were some oddities: most of the shops were closed, but the leather shop (clothes!) was open, which seemed excessively optimistic to me.
And now, we are much more firmly locked down, so it's just as well we went.
It was actually a lovely morning. Chilly, but the sky was bright blue and the palest pink magnolias were at peak glory (or, in one case, just-past-the-peak). Dark pink magnolias are still only in bud. So much blossom everywhere, so many daffodils. The world is a beautiful place. Also there was a quail in the back garden.
Yesterday evening, I had a long phone conversation with my brother! Bit of a surprise as I have not heard from him in over a year, but it was lovely to talk to him.
My children are both working from home, which is good to know, and their housemates work from home anyway. I just hope they won't all drive each other mad.
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I am trying to figure out how to do a virtual Easter Egg Hunt. My family has had an Easter Egg Hunt every year since they were very tiny, and we always enjoy it, but I don't think we'll be able to do that this year.
*
Exercise time was a programme based on the last Double Trouble class I had, which wore me out. Inevitably, FIL wandered in as we were part-way through, but it wasn't too bad a moment since we'd just done some warm-up dance-ish moves and hadn't started on the pyramid yet. Beast went to sort him out, after I had told him very firmly that he could not leave his loaded slow cooker (chicken thighs!) on the worktop for the next twenty four hours but must put it in the fridge. I don't understand why he has started filling the slow cooker a day before he wants to actually cook stuff in it, but I should prefer not to have our lives complicated by a FIL with food poisoning.
The exercise routine worked well! I'm including it under a cut, in case anyone is interested.
( Read more... )
And today, our yoga mats have come!
My posts are going to be *so* boring over the next few weeks.