Lock down holidays

We are into Week Six or Lockdown. What can I say?

There are good days and bad days, productive days and lazy days. There are frustrating days and days when you feel truly blessed. There are days you feel lost, days you feel inspired and surprise yourself and other days that really feel like Groundhog Day. It’s been so hard to write because there is so little to tell!

This is the third time I’ve started writing a post. I am struggling to capture my lock down vibe because it is just so normal! I haven’t left the house/garden for 35 days - it has flown by. Turns out I am quite a homebody! Even our favourite restaurants doing take away hasn’t enticed us to venture outside. I am lucky my lockdown is with husband and the girls, we have food, we have space, we have toilet paper(!) and I have the beauty of nature on my doorstep, the mountains behind me, the sea on the horizon, goats across the lane and even a sneaky fox pops up now and then. It is a very different world from that in the papers and on the television...

We are currently in the middle of our Easter Holidays. It has been lovely being at the house. Lovely but different to our usual holidays. The girls have run wild in the sunshine hunting unicorns, riding bikes, having water fights and picking leaves and flowers for their nature book. They have spent endless hours with Lego and playing their imaginary game where they both speak with American accents. They have been allowed to sleep in, run around, watch TV at leisure(ish) and basically relax and enjoy being children.

It has been very nice for me too. I’ve stepped up my exercise, walked circuits around the garden while listening to Richard Rohr podcasts, read undisturbed,  listened to birdsong, caught up with friends on the phone, enjoyed long baths with my kindle and new bath products and tried out new recipes (yes you read that correctly!) and generally enjoyed these days where we have been truly free to do what we want when we want. It has been mostly blissful and considering it is now our sixth week of lockdown it is nothing short of a miracle we are all still getting along rather harmoniously!

Today we had rain all day. Not a problem for new Lockdown Me. I chatted to my mum over coffee, then prepared the evening meal of lentil soup so that it could cook all day so that it resembled a kind of thick stew with chorizo and ham and vegetables. It is serious comfort food. While that was cooking I started clearing out kitchen cupboards and drawers. I then moved on to the girls “meeting room” and cafe and basically was clearing up until about 16h00! Then it was a quick Hiit work out (20 different exercises in 20 minutes with no rest) before I decided to call it a day. Tomorrow more rain is predicted meaning I can fine tune the tidying, the charity bag and the recycling pile. The house will be transformed by the time the sun returns on Wednesday!

On that note I better end this as it has taken most of my evening to write. Good night all. Stay safe. X