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11 things my kids have learned in lockdown

Corona lockdown week 18: 11 things my kids have actually learned in lockdown

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. It’s the end of the school year, and the summer holidays are upon us. At long bloody last! Unlike previous years, when I’ve dreaded the six week break, this year I’m quite looking forward to it. It’ll be business as usual, without the trauma of homeschooling. Lovely. It’s fair to say that

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Corona lockdown week 17: Ignorance (and a sunny pub garden) is bliss

Parenting, Politics and Life / 13 July 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. This week has just flown by; as such I’ve not really kept on top of this ‘diary’ thing and I may have missed a week. I meant to write about my joy at being back in restaurants and pubs, but was in fact too busy enjoying the restaurants and pubs to write

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Corona lockdown week 16: Influencing in the time of corona

Blogging, Parenting, Politics and Life / 6 July 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. This post contains affiliate links; find more information here! I have spoken before about how much I dislike the term ‘influencer‘. It makes me cringe and I would never dare to introduce myself as such, but as someone who has amassed a fair following on social media, I am technically a Micro

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Corona lockdown week 15: What have you achieved in #100days?

Parenting, Politics and Life / 30 June 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. Today it is, somewhat amazingly, 100 days since lockdown was imposed. Some days it feels like forever, but even so, seeing that written down is quite something. 100 days in lockdown. 100 days since the kids were at school, 100 days since I last went into a shop other than the supermarket,

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Corona lockdown week 14: Getting back to normal (and to the pub)

Parenting, Politics and Life / 26 June 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. It’s week 14 in Corona lockdown hell, and I don’t want to jinx it by saying this out loud, but it may have been the best week so far. At the weekend we went down to my parents’ house. Well, their garden anyway. It was the furthest we’d travelled by far since

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Corona lockdown week 13: Nothing to report, so here are my favourite easy cocktails

Food & drink, Parenting, Politics and Life, Politics / 19 June 2020

This post contains affiliate links; more information is available here. Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. Week 13: unlucky for some, maybe, but for us it has been very much the same as the 12 weeks before it. 13 weeks is, if you hadn’t worked it out already, one quarter of a full year. That’s quite a long

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Corona lockdown week 12: 7 ways I’ll be keeping to lockdown life once this is over

Parenting, Politics and Life / 12 June 2020

This is a collaborative post. Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. So, predictably, lockdown stretches on for a further week. As noted last week (or was it the week before? Who knows, time means nothing these days…), whether it is advisable or not, the world around us is starting to shift ever so slowly back towards some kind

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Corona lockdown week (almost) 11: Lockdown is easing but has FOMO become fear of going out?

Parenting, Politics and Life / 30 May 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. After ten weeks, lockdown in England is easing. There are only a few days left until schools reopen, and a matter of weeks before non-essential shops can trade again. Even though many have argued that the R-rate isn’t as low as it should be – and in some areas (including mine, yay)

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Corona Lockdown week 10: Let’s all drive to Durham and drop off the kids

Parenting, Politics and Life, Politics / 25 May 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. Alternative working titles would be ‘The weekend Twitter was amazing’ and ‘The week that hell froze over and I found myself agreeing with Piers Morgan and The Daily Mail’. This week, it was revealed that Boris’ odious personal adviser and (presumed) part-time Gollum impressionist Dominic Cummings made a bit of a boo

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Corona Lockdown week 9: Ambulances, bins and pondering about fringes

Parenting, Politics and Life / 19 May 2020

Read the rest of my Corona Lockdown diaries here. It’s week 9 of lockdown, and having made the decision that unless a miracle occurs that the kids won’t be going back to school last week, we haven’t changed our mind on the subject. The summer is stretching out before us. Almost four more months of having the kids at home with

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