The Home Front meets Covid-19

jinny

Bexster
Thank you I found a huge box of yorkshire tea in farm foods £4:99
happy days.   The laundry is going ok. Im doing laundry in the bath with a plunger.  Soaking it then drip dry overnight over bath 
then out on the balcony to finish. Working well with the sunshine were getting lately.

bexster1975

I agree Pyxis. The mixed messages about the social distancing situation is not helping. In the US, Trump could not be making it clearer that economics are his priority, whilst NY state now has more deaths there than any single country in the world. Meanwhile here, stores are being kept open that are, frankly, not essential ( The Range, B and M, B and Q) and the gutter press have nothing else to report than taking snaps of people coming out of these stores with baking utensils, compost, DIY materials etc. The thing is, people need to have things to do whilst at home. In the UK, it seems, people don't think further than the day they want to do something. According to a news website, yesterday afternoon the B and Q website had a queue of 200,000 people waiting to buy DIY materials, many to click and collect! If government are serious about lockdown, they should be completely clear which shops can stay open, and what they can sell. Otherwise, if the store is open and the product for sale, I see that customers think it is fair game. It is not helped by the fact many online sellers are exploiting the situation and raising prices of almost everything. As a result, people feel they need to buy from stores. 

I agree also that many people seem to think the rules do not apply to them. I am very glad I do not have children. I'm sorry, but I cannot think of anything worse than trying to work from home, home-school and run a home with everyone in it ( cleaning, washing, cooking, shopping).
Hope everyone has the best Easter that they can, and stay well.

Bexster 

jinny

Bexster
Oh we had balcony parties here last night until 2am Im not a drinker but not a party pooper either, but jeez its not Benidorm
Memories of my Grannie taking the mackeson bottles in a shopping bag back to a shop miles away from gossips Lol

jinny

The Italian medics begged us to lock down sooner to avoid ending up like them. I hope people try to have a nice Easter anyway.  Its about survival now not flouting the rules. 

Stay in if you can and stay safe x

thriftwizard

"I cannot think of anything worse than trying to work from home, home-school and run a home with everyone in it ( cleaning, washing, cooking, shopping)."
Been there, done that, probably helped screen-print the t-shirt as part of someone's Art GCSE! To be fair, though, there's a huge difference between home-schooling, which is what most people are having to do now, and elective home education, which is what I did with 2 of my offspring, which is much more relaxed in the sense that your kids can spend all day doing maths if that's what's currently floating their boat, as long as they get there in the end. I ended up building up & running a small business that I could work around them, which is still ticking over, though there's a lot less home-running to do now 3 of the 5 offspring have left home. Although, monster that I am, all 5 of them had to do a certain amount of cleaning, washing, cooking & shopping once they were old enough to do so... it didn't kill them, despite their threats to ring ChildLine!

ETA: of course, working for a boss, with strict deadlines etc. would be rather different, and yes, very difficult. Much sympathy to all who have to try...

monnagran

Couldn't agree more thriftwizard.  In my previous existence, it was simple.  500+ children in a school hall running riot?  No prob. The teacher's death stare restored peace in seconds. 45x5yearolds straight from home (no play groups or nursery schools then) in a small room condemned as a classroom in 1947 with the sole responsibility (no teaching assistants then either)of turning them out whole in body, mind and spirit, and literate and numerate to boot?  Not quite easy peasy, but possible. I also taught them all to swim despite being a non-swimmer myself.  I'd be in prison if I tried it today.

Forward 50 odd years and coronovirus and one 7yearold granddaughter  requiring home teaching by Facetime, and we are floundering in murkier waters. Try checking spellings on a piece of paper being waved from some far distant corner of the room.  Or teaching fractions by getting her to colour in sections of a circle when she has to draw her own circle and divide it up herself.  Thankfully, storytime is always a hit, even though she had to learn to just listen, nothing to look at.  Less thankfully, the dog  also enjoys storytime and parks herself in front of the screen, staring at me intently. There are sounds of struggle as small girl tries to get out from under the dog but l have found myself telling the story of the Princess and the pea to an appreciative Dalmation.

Hallelujah!  It's the Easter holidays.

Pyxis

jinny said:

Bexster
Oh we had balcony parties here last night until 2am Im not a drinker but not a party pooper either, but jeez its not Benidorm
Memories of my Grannie taking the mackeson bottles in a shopping bag back to a shop miles away from gossips Lol

Our off-licence was only a few steps away, so as a child, I was often asked to take the empties and get the deposits back, which I was never allowed to keep. ☹️

Trouble was that, even though it was very close, to an 8/9-year-old, lugging a bag of bottles was still a feat, and sometimes the wrong brewery’s bottles were in the bag, and so I had to lug them home again. ☹️☹️

Pyxis

thriftwizard said:

"I cannot think of anything worse than trying to work from home, home-school and run a home with everyone in it ( cleaning, washing, cooking, shopping)."
Been there, done that, probably helped screen-print the t-shirt as part of someone's Art GCSE! To be fair, though, there's a huge difference between home-schooling, which is what most people are having to do now, and elective home education, which is what I did with 2 of my offspring, which is much more relaxed in the sense that your kids can spend all day doing maths if that's what's currently floating their boat, as long as they get there in the end. I ended up building up & running a small business that I could work around them, which is still ticking over, though there's a lot less home-running to do now 3 of the 5 offspring have left home. Although, monster that I am, all 5 of them had to do a certain amount of cleaning, washing, cooking & shopping once they were old enough to do so... it didn't kill them, despite their threats to ring ChildLine!

ETA: of course, working for a boss, with strict deadlines etc. would be rather different, and yes, very difficult. Much sympathy to all who have to try...

That’s not being a monster! That’s being an exemplary parent! 👏👏

monnagran said:

Couldn't agree more thriftwizard.  In my previous existence, it was simple.  500+ children in a school hall running riot?  No prob. The teacher's death stare restored peace in seconds. 45x5yearolds straight from home (no play groups or nursery schools then) in a small room condemned as a classroom in 1947 with the sole responsibility (no teaching assistants then either)of turning them out whole in body, mind and spirit, and literate and numerate to boot?  Not quite easy peasy, but possible. I also taught them all to swim despite being a non-swimmer myself.  I'd be in prison if I tried it today.

Forward 50 odd years and coronovirus and one 7yearold granddaughter  requiring home teaching by Facetime, and we are floundering in murkier waters. Try checking spellings on a piece of paper being waved from some far distant corner of the room.  Or teaching fractions by getting her to colour in sections of a circle when she has to draw her own circle and divide it up herself.  Thankfully, storytime is always a hit, even though she had to learn to just listen, nothing to look at.  Less thankfully, the dog  also enjoys storytime and parks herself in front of the screen, staring at me intently. There are sounds of struggle as small girl tries to get out from under the dog but l have found myself telling the story of the Princess and the pea to an appreciative Dalmation.

Hallelujah!  It's the Easter holidays.

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Referring back to your first paragraph, though, I would think that it was made easier by the fact that you would, in general, have had the backing of parents.......you know, the old adage of getting punished by the teacher for a misdemeanour and then getting punished again when the parent got to hear of it.

monnagran

Strangely I never had any trouble with discipline, and not much with parents.
I did have a father accost me once after school.  He was a doctor, and he perched on the corner of a desk and informed me that he had 10 minutes to spare and would I like to run through how I taught a child to read.  When I had simmered down I said that if he had 10 minutes to spare perhaps he would like to run through removing a gall bladder.
He slammed the door on the way out.

skogar

Not exactly digging for victory but my tomato seedlings are beginning to come up. I know I was a bit late sowing (even for growing outside as no greenhouse).