In Isolation

I thought I would just like to put pen to paper, well fingers to keyboard, and document my families time spent while in 12 week isolation from coronavirus (Covid-19).

My wife falls into the high risk category, as she is currently undergoing treatment for Lymphoma (blood cancer) and has been given the stark government advice to stay indoors and see no-one, don't go out, don't pass go and definitely don't collect £200. We are all joining her on her 12 week journey - hopefully by which time things may have changed for the better.

Day 22

13/04/2020

Well today, being Bank Holiday Monday we fancied a trip to the coast, do some packing up, you know, sarnies, pop and crisps, jump in the car and drive off to somewhere nice, or even Leysdown! Oh, then I remembered, we can't, the country is in lockdown and we are stuck inside "shielding".

Day 21

12/04/2020

Well, that is 3 weeks done - a quarter of the way through the government's planned shielding for my wife and by default, the rest of our family. It has gone surprisingly quickly, I think mainly as we have kept ourselves quite busy - not flat out busy, but just setting ourselves targets of things to do, each day. We...

Day 20

11/04/2020

I think I have mentioned that I am getting good at hoovering - so good in fact that I have now started hoovering the garden. I got to use my new boys toy, the super dooper leaf blower, vacuum and mulcher - it's really good and does the job well. Does what it says on the tin!