sad St Patrick's Day

[Pleater]

We are certainly living in interesting times - my longsword, Cotswold Morris and Border Morris practice evenings are all cancelled, the Sunday afternoon folk club has closed down, I expect the Sunday evening music sessions will not go ahead, dance outs and weekend events are cancelled right through until May already and I expect more will go as the days pass.

I am going to have so much more time to knit and sew and crochet - I might even have to resort to housework to stave off boredom, though my son and daughter in law will be adding their fifth child to the mix in the next day or so - we might become involved in child care for the older ones.

Fortunately I filled up the car then stocked up the freezer and the fridges before most people realised just how things were going - any illness which is infectious before the symptoms appear is going to be problematic.
We can only try to stay safe and well, and wait for things to get better.

Anne the Pleater

[OC Richard]

What I was just thinking about was how much more impactful staying at home would have been at any time prior to now.

Many have been lamenting people shopping online and the decline of neighborhood shops, or the way so many young people do their socializing online rather than in person.

But now these things are positives.

And I think more people are able to work from home from ever before.

My sister, a retired teacher, was saying that this crisis is forcing Education to do what they could have done years ago: shift to online classrooms.