Day 5 - Monday 23rd March
They say routine is important, so I'm back at my desk as usual this morning. I work from home anyway, but there's not much in my inbox so I spend the morning looking for local suppliers I can order from to get groceries delivered. I have found sources for fresh meat, fruit and veg but when I start to run out of store-cupboard staples I'd prefer to buy them from independent businesses who are more vulnerable in these challenging times. First port of call is the local Gossip Girls group - what would we do without Facebook in times like this?
I volunteer each year as a judge for the Young Enterprise programme, where sixth-form students are able to set up a young enterprise company and run it for an academic year to learn business skills. Our final event has been cancelled for obvious reasons, but we are all still marking the business plans the young people have written and there is an online showcase planned in place of the usual trade fair. I'm so glad we are still going to be able to judge the hard work they have done, especially since their academic exams have been postponed indefinitely.
Some great news arrived at lunchtime - the dance project I was involved in last summer was nominated for a cultural award! We were a bunch of random women brought together by an inspirational samba queen to perform in procession at a couple of music festivals. It was so much fun to do, I met some lovely women and we were looking forward to doing it all again this summer, so with that now in doubt the nomination is a consolation.
It has been a beautiful sunny day and I was able to dry our laundry on the line. I was hoping for some time in my hammock with a book but I have been busy all day, responding to emails and getting sucked in to social media. My yoga teacher has set up online yoga classes so this evening at 6.30 I am able to do what I always do on a Monday evening … a pleasing note of normality in an otherwise disrupted life. It was a great class and we chatted online before and after which was wonderful.
At 8.30 the Prime Minister's announcement was broadcast to the nation - we are going on lockdown. I guess I should have been prepared for that, since I've been hoping for it, but unfortunately I had neglected to book an online supermarket delivery and now all the websites are crashing due to too much traffic. I manage to join the queue online at Ocado - I'm number 5,565 - but when my turn comes it rejects my password and trying to reset it sends me back to the queue - this time at number 19,483 with a predicted wait time of two hours. Guess I know how I'll be spending my evening.
Today I am grateful for yoga.
I volunteer each year as a judge for the Young Enterprise programme, where sixth-form students are able to set up a young enterprise company and run it for an academic year to learn business skills. Our final event has been cancelled for obvious reasons, but we are all still marking the business plans the young people have written and there is an online showcase planned in place of the usual trade fair. I'm so glad we are still going to be able to judge the hard work they have done, especially since their academic exams have been postponed indefinitely.
Some great news arrived at lunchtime - the dance project I was involved in last summer was nominated for a cultural award! We were a bunch of random women brought together by an inspirational samba queen to perform in procession at a couple of music festivals. It was so much fun to do, I met some lovely women and we were looking forward to doing it all again this summer, so with that now in doubt the nomination is a consolation.
It has been a beautiful sunny day and I was able to dry our laundry on the line. I was hoping for some time in my hammock with a book but I have been busy all day, responding to emails and getting sucked in to social media. My yoga teacher has set up online yoga classes so this evening at 6.30 I am able to do what I always do on a Monday evening … a pleasing note of normality in an otherwise disrupted life. It was a great class and we chatted online before and after which was wonderful.
At 8.30 the Prime Minister's announcement was broadcast to the nation - we are going on lockdown. I guess I should have been prepared for that, since I've been hoping for it, but unfortunately I had neglected to book an online supermarket delivery and now all the websites are crashing due to too much traffic. I manage to join the queue online at Ocado - I'm number 5,565 - but when my turn comes it rejects my password and trying to reset it sends me back to the queue - this time at number 19,483 with a predicted wait time of two hours. Guess I know how I'll be spending my evening.
Today I am grateful for yoga.
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