Today is Monday although you wouldn't really know it - it feels the same as Saturday and Friday!!! No Mum this week obviously as we are on lock-down - in fact it feels like we have been on lockdown for much longer than a week. Our fun and games trying to get Mum to master the texting system for permission to go out went out of the window this afternoon when further restrictions were announced!!!
From tomorrow we are only allowed to request to go out once a day save for emergency visits to Doctor/Dentist/Vets, Blood Donations, Prescriptions and Help for the Vulnerable (subsequently they have announced that dog owners can take their dogs out as well). If you are under 65 you must use the text system so Mum can continue to use a paper form. Retail outlets will be closed on Sundays and there is to be a curfew from 9.00pm at night until 6.00am in the morning every day save for workers. Finally the only people allowed in a house are those that live there permanently. There is no end date to these restrictions so hopefully people will take heed and knuckle down so that we can get out of this situation as soon as possible.
We are trying to find things to fill our time without going out although even under the new restrictions tomorrow we will be allowed to go out once a day.
Things are beginning to spring to life in the garden and I am super excited that the two Hostas that I managed to get over here last year have survived the winter and are now showing the 'Green Shoots of Recovery" that they used to talk about during the financial crisis. Let's hope that these signs of optimism will be reflected across the island as a whole. It is going to be a long few months which we really don't want made any longer by those who refuse to toe the line.
Today, having consulted the 'To-Do' list, I have decided to give what we refer to as the 'downstairs' toilet a lick of paint to freshen it up. This is the toilet next to the kitchen although why we refer to it as the downstairs kitchen I will never know as we are all on one floor. This little black hole of Calcutta gets no sunlight, is always cold and therefore can suffer with condensation if the woodburner is lit and the door gets open and a waft of lovely warm air hits those super cold walls. I have also noticed that the walls have become discoloured also due to the woodburner.
In order that I could see which bits had been painted and which had not, we decided to use the original paint mixed with some magnolia just to lighten it up a bit.
I started out by giving that little room the biggest bottoming of its life and had to leave it to settle down otherwise the stench of bleach would have knackered my lungs. Having said that I tackled the shower room afterwards with much the same result. They are now both clean and sparkling and germ free - somewhat important in these virus-riddled times.
I did as much of the painting as I could manage - thankfully there wasn't enough room for both John and I to be in there at the same time otherwise war would have been declared as we rarely work together in harmony.
We managed to get it done but will need to double check tomorrow to make sure we didn't miss anything because in the end the paint wasn't such a different colour after all!!!
The worldwide lockdown means that video calls are happening all the time between people who normally don't use the facility. Today we had a call from our lovely No1 Stalker Wendy and it was so lovely to see her as she should have been here with me for a week whilst John was in the UK.
We compared lockdown arrangements and parents' health and how we are filling our time and Wendy was telling me how Andrew (Bill) had taken up painting so I thought it would be a great idea for him and I to take part in a Lockdown Painting Challenge so each week we could take it in turns to chose a subject and then take the week to produce a water-colour and then let family and friends vote on it!!!
Extract from my Ration Book...
...You could, with ingenuity, create a complete tin train set form an old coffee pot, sardine and boot polish tines, an array of cotton reels, some offcuts of wood and an assortment of nails, screws and washers
Something to think about when we get really, really bored!!!
From tomorrow we are only allowed to request to go out once a day save for emergency visits to Doctor/Dentist/Vets, Blood Donations, Prescriptions and Help for the Vulnerable (subsequently they have announced that dog owners can take their dogs out as well). If you are under 65 you must use the text system so Mum can continue to use a paper form. Retail outlets will be closed on Sundays and there is to be a curfew from 9.00pm at night until 6.00am in the morning every day save for workers. Finally the only people allowed in a house are those that live there permanently. There is no end date to these restrictions so hopefully people will take heed and knuckle down so that we can get out of this situation as soon as possible.
We are trying to find things to fill our time without going out although even under the new restrictions tomorrow we will be allowed to go out once a day.Things are beginning to spring to life in the garden and I am super excited that the two Hostas that I managed to get over here last year have survived the winter and are now showing the 'Green Shoots of Recovery" that they used to talk about during the financial crisis. Let's hope that these signs of optimism will be reflected across the island as a whole. It is going to be a long few months which we really don't want made any longer by those who refuse to toe the line.
Today, having consulted the 'To-Do' list, I have decided to give what we refer to as the 'downstairs' toilet a lick of paint to freshen it up. This is the toilet next to the kitchen although why we refer to it as the downstairs kitchen I will never know as we are all on one floor. This little black hole of Calcutta gets no sunlight, is always cold and therefore can suffer with condensation if the woodburner is lit and the door gets open and a waft of lovely warm air hits those super cold walls. I have also noticed that the walls have become discoloured also due to the woodburner.
In order that I could see which bits had been painted and which had not, we decided to use the original paint mixed with some magnolia just to lighten it up a bit.I started out by giving that little room the biggest bottoming of its life and had to leave it to settle down otherwise the stench of bleach would have knackered my lungs. Having said that I tackled the shower room afterwards with much the same result. They are now both clean and sparkling and germ free - somewhat important in these virus-riddled times.
I did as much of the painting as I could manage - thankfully there wasn't enough room for both John and I to be in there at the same time otherwise war would have been declared as we rarely work together in harmony.
We managed to get it done but will need to double check tomorrow to make sure we didn't miss anything because in the end the paint wasn't such a different colour after all!!!
The worldwide lockdown means that video calls are happening all the time between people who normally don't use the facility. Today we had a call from our lovely No1 Stalker Wendy and it was so lovely to see her as she should have been here with me for a week whilst John was in the UK.
We compared lockdown arrangements and parents' health and how we are filling our time and Wendy was telling me how Andrew (Bill) had taken up painting so I thought it would be a great idea for him and I to take part in a Lockdown Painting Challenge so each week we could take it in turns to chose a subject and then take the week to produce a water-colour and then let family and friends vote on it!!!
Extract from my Ration Book...
...You could, with ingenuity, create a complete tin train set form an old coffee pot, sardine and boot polish tines, an array of cotton reels, some offcuts of wood and an assortment of nails, screws and washers
Something to think about when we get really, really bored!!!
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