Lockdown Life – Phase One
Today we enter Phase One of the delockdowning. The big changes are more than one person from the same household can go in a car and there can be meetings of up to 10 people in a home. Outdoor areas…
another day, another olive grove…
Lockdown Life – Day 48, we go out
The lockdown (which is a phrase that I really don’t like as it sounds punitive, I prefer quarantine) is starting to be lifted gradually and next week we start on Phase 0. Prior to this, the measures have been lifted…
we go asparagus picking!
The Hidden Challenge of Living with a Talking Parrot
We’ve just spent the last goodness knows how long trying to decide how to teach Ludvig to ask for something. He’s still quite young, but we ought to be able to teach him how to ask for things – but…
why we don’t need to worry about flour!
Lockdown Life – Light at the End of the Tunnel
The government has laid out the plans for de-escalation which will start next week sometime, assuming there’s no increase in cases requiring ICU beds. The government is very concerned about a second outbreak and their focus is equally about ensuring…
Lockdown Life – Day 40
As we near the end of the 6th week of lockdown, we’re beginning to notice some changes. We can still no longer get flour (but the good news is we are buying some direct from a mill, which will actually…
Training With Daisy
Our Couch to 5k running program is part walking and part running, so during the walking bits, we have used the time to do some Daisy training – specifically fetching a ball. We don’t do this during the running sections…
Lockdown Life – Day er….
Bobbins gave us a worry yesterday when she had a lump appear on her leg. It was the other side to the ones she had removed, and it was soft, not hard. I got in touch with the vet and…