The Lockdown Begins

Two posts in 4 years - that's fucking shoddy!

So this is the first COVID-19 post.  It's Mon 23rd March, 2020, and today is the first day that the schools are closed - in our neck of the woods, anyway. And if nothing else, it's probably worth recording what's going on so that I can look back on it in a few years. Or so that the kids can show people something about that weird year when everything was odd.

PREVIOUSLY ON "NOW WHAT HAPPENS...?"

Last Friday, the PM (Boris Johnson, fans from the future) announced that all pubs, restaurants, bars, clubs, theatres, and cinemas had to close.  Although theatres and cinemas pretty much had already done so.

The supermarket shelves are pretty much empty whenever you go, and there are accusations of people buying more than they need to.  That's been going on for the last week or more, even though there have been no restrictions on people going out, so far.

Last Monday at the Plaza Theatre we cancelled all performances until the end of June.  Gutting for the cast of Silly Cow who were supposed to be doing their dress rehearsal that night.  Hopefully the show will go on in July instead - though predictions of the disruption due to the virus veer from 12 weeks to 6 months...

Z and K are at home, with MLYW trying to come up with a home-school programme for them.  Screen time (especially tablets and PlayStation) have been severely cut back (by us) otherwise they would never do any work.

Luckily, the weather is good, so the boys are able to play in the garden, but arguments are frequent at the moment. Maybe in a week or two we will all be used to staying home all the time, and the kids will get used to the new rules...?  Maybe!

I am getting used to working from home and MLYW has had to temporarily stop going to work at the school, as her asthma makes it too risky.