Staying Home: Day 27

Happy Easter!

Although the temperature is due to drop 10 degrees (C) overnight, the warm spring weather has lasted for Easter - in fact, the temperatures this weekend would be warm for summer. I watched a streamed Easter Vigil service from Blackfriars, Oxford, but found it difficult to engage. We swapped chocolate Easter eggs, ate too much chocolate, and H (with TG as sous-chef) cooked an Easter dinner of roast lamb, roast potatoes, carrots, peas, leeks, and Yorkshire puddings. She is such a good cook! Her flavouring always comes out better than mine. 

This morning I coloured my hair and H cut it. I suggested beforehand it might be a good idea to watch a couple of YouTube videos, but filled with confidence from her success cutting M's hair a couple of weeks ago she decided that wasn't necessary. I have short hair with is very thick and fine, and not easy to deal with, but it had been left far too long since I last cut it and was thoroughly irritating me. We reckoned that if her hairdressing went wrong, at least there would be time for it to grow out before many people would see me! Her first attempt was a thorough pudding basin cut, which reduced us both to hysterical laughter. She then tackled trying to give it some layers and texture, and after passing through an Edna Mode from the Incredibles stage, it has actually ended up looking quite decent. Definitely better than it was before. (No, I'm not going to post a picture! I am not a good selfie taker.)

M and I made it to the old Bluebell Wood today, which is looking beautiful. Perfect for Easter. When we got back we had a family FaceTime chat with our eldest daughter R, who seems in very good spirits. She has been furloughed from work and has decided to take advantage of the time off to start a marketing course, as she is in the process of an internal transfer from recruitment to marketing (she should have started on 1st April but it has been postponed until things are up and running again). Meanwhile she has bought a cheap Kindle on eBay and has been enjoying soaking up the sun in the garden and reading, and has been doing quite a bit of baking. 

Disney movie of the day was vintage Bambi, and we all watched tonight's episode of Race Across the World, with teams of two are racing from Mexico to the tip of South America via a series of checkpoints. Satisfying our travel cravings vicariously!