Another industrious morning with all of us settled down working nice and early, except M who was between jobs. A new one came in this afternoon but he is not sure yet whether he will have all the material he needs to start it tomorrow. Meanwhile I am finishing off the previous job. Our method of working is that he writes the exam questions, then I edit them and get the final versions into whatever format they need to be in for submission - that means I am always working a bit behind him.
TG started her day by doing her catering task, which she photographed and then ate for breakfast (waffles, beautifully presented with blueberries and chocolate-hazelnut spread). This is definitely her idea of how schoolwork should be! She also started making salt crystals as a chemistry activity. H finished writing her dissertation conclusion. In the afternoon TG carried on with her photography project and took yellow, green and blue photographs. H did some more work, and M made a cake. He and I went out for a short walk in the rain after lunch, TG did a dance class, and H did strength training.
I spent most of my morning doing virtual archaeology, researching the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon history of a local village to add to the archives website. A significant amount of new housing is now being built in and around this particular village, which means there has been a lot of recent archaeological excavation done - in the UK substantial developments have to be preceded by an archaeological survey of the area before it gets buried under buildings. Most of the information we put up on our website is based on the documents we hold in the archives, but they don't go back that far so I had to rely on other sources. We already have a very large site which is a fantastic resource for local history, and also helps to point people at particular documents and collections. These days we don't get much opportunity to add to it and rely largely on contributions from volunteers, but it is something constructive to work on while I am at home without direct access to the archives.
I am delighted to report that M's "cold" has virtually disappeared - with a bit of help from some antihistamines! It seems he may be starting to suffer from unexpected allergies after all. My guess is that it may be a combination of the warm weather leading to both a high pollen count and to him spending far more time than normal outdoors. It is reassuring that it now seems unlikely that he caught a virus, even if it was only the common cold variety.
Our movie of the day was the recent Disney version of the Jungle Book. We are getting close to running out of what the girls describe as "proper" Disney movies. I think the plan is that next week we will move on to watching all the Harry Potter movies, spreading each of them over two days as they are a bit too long for our usual late afternoon movie slot. H made dinner, which was IKEA style meatballs and gravy (they released the recipe), with mashed potatoes and broccoli. After dinner we watched Beat the Chasers, a new quiz show spin off from The Chase.
CRAZY PAVING: "A form of paving, as for a path, made of slabs of stone of irregular shape fitted together."
3 comments:
“H finished writing her dissertation conclusion” — that sounds momentous!? :-)
Really glad to hear it seems to be allergies rather than virus. Our spring allergies here have been rather awful — and we continue to wonder if our nasty 'flu we had was actually C19 ... p'raps we'll be able to take the antibody test at some point. .... meantime, our conservative state politicians are suing to try to get the governor to cancel the shelter at home — despite our positives rising day by day! Madness.
It is momentous - or at least it will be once it is submitted. 12,000 words on gender stereotypes and Italian cinema was a long haul!
I wonder myself if what I thought was a resurgence of a previous virus in early March could have been C19. If it was, nobody else caught it. I have been watching what is going on in the US - it seems to be the only place where significant numbers of people don't think a reasonably extensive lockdown is a good thing. I wish we could all be like New Zealand. They look to have beaten the virus thanks to everyone working together and some fantastic leadership from Jacinda Ardern.
Oh, that's a fantastic dissertation topic! :-) (my BA was in Gender Studies)
I can only hope and pray that wiser heads prevail here, in terms of our ongoing response to this public health crisis!
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