Will Dig Life

It's week 11 of staying at home almost all the time, and the weather is getting to be pretty glorious. One side effect of this is that the kids now rarely wear any clothes at all - I'm happy to allow them to be kids in all their freedom, but I'm obviously not going to take pictures and put them online. So there's not much of our home life to show this week! We did snail races and drawing on the pavement in front of the house, with clothes on.  Stegosaurus. We did however go to visit the tadpoles, and we saw not only those but also newts and huge dragonflies.... And of course we also walked Archie.

This week I'm changing the format a little, I don't think daily posts are worth it any more - as we pretty much do the same thing all the time! We're still home. Guidance has been relaxed so that "you can meet one person not of your household in the open air, staying 2 metres apart": not much of a real change actually, although it seems like much of the population seems to take it to mean, "go back to normal". We have decided, as a family, to continue isolating: the kids wouldn't stay 2 metres apart from friends if we were to meet them, and our priority is to enable the grandparents to see the kids as soon as the guidance allows for actual contact (as it would be cruel to expect them to stay 2 metres away from them when they meet in person!). So in order to protect the grandparents, we will stay away from others for the moment. In other news, I have now finished BSF (the Bible Study Fellowship I've been part of for years) and won't be picking