Staying Home: Day 7

A week already, although it feels as though this has just been a training session for what is ahead. It looks likely tighter restrictions will be introduced from tonight. As we are already socially distancing ourselves pretty strictly the only thing that would now make a dramatic difference for us is if there are restrictions on going out for a walk. Today our eldest daughter had a day off work (she is working from home, as is her partner) so those of us who were studying or working took an hour off and we met her and her dog in a village a couple of miles away for a walk along a bridle path. We were very careful to keep the required two metres distance from her and walked in a straggle rather than a group. Depending on how things evolve it may be a long time before we see her again.

We passed one girl on a horse, and an old couple also out for a walk. As we all exaggeratedly kept our distance we empathised about the current state of things across the path; they told us to KBO - Keep Buggering On, to quote Churchill. 

At the beginning of the track we passed this lovely thatched house. 

I particularly like the roof detail, especially the thatched bird - a duck, I think.

The girls spent much of the day in the dining room studying. Teen Girl woke up to the Show My Homework app pinging through a load of school tasks which she started working through. Both of them are being super organised and giving themselves a daily to do list to work through. I split my work day between doing tasks on the laptop and sorting the brass band archives. I don't have the energy yet to spend too long at a time shuffling files and boxes. After they finished working the girls exercised and then H cooked burgers for dinner - served in brioche buns with home made guacamole, coleslaw and potato wedges, bean or beef burgers according to preference. 

Now I am enjoying some rhubarb gin and about to watch the third place play off of Only Connect. M and I watch this complicated quiz every week but rarely get any questions right. Love the challenge though.